MD FRCSE FRCSG FRCOphth
Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- j.forrester@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
Room 4.24 Institute of Medical Sciences
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD
Tel: 01224 437507
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Professor Forrester received his MD, ChB from Glasgow University, Scotland in 1970. In 1980 he received his MD also from the University of Glasgow. Between 1979-1984 he was Consultant Ophthalmologist/Clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology at Glasgow University. In 1984 he was appointed to his current post, Cockburn Professor of Ophthalmology University of Aberdeen/Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, NHS Grampian.
He has over the years received 16 awards and Visiting Professorships including the London Hospital Prize for Original Research in Ophthalmology in 1977, the Duke Elder Medal and the Ida Mann Medal in 1991. He received the Spinoza Professorship in Amsterdam in 1998 and the Kimura Lectureship as Visiting Professor (UCSF) University of California, San Francisco in 2004.
His main areas of research are Diabetic Retinopathy, Angiogenesis, Endothelial Cell Function, Ocular Immunology, Uveitis, Autoimmune Disease, Imaging in Ophthalmology, Wound Healing and Corneal Transplantation and has published over 260 papers.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Physicians of Edinburgh, Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
He was Chairman of the RCOphth Medical Ophthalmology Training Sub-Committee and the RCOphth Diabetic Retinopathy Guidelines Committee and a member of the MRC Advisory Board. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Ophthalmology 1992-2000. He is currently an Editorial Board member of the British Journal of Ophthalmology, European Journal of Ophthalmology and Current Eye Research.
- Publications
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Regulation of plasminogen activation by TGF-beta in cultured human retinal endothelial cells
British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 84, pp. 417-422Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSympathetic ophthalmia risk following vitrectomy: should we counsel patients?
British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 84, pp. 448-449Contributions to Journals: EditorialsUniocular macular oedema and reduced vision in a patient with uveitis
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, vol. 28, pp. 912Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRegulation of transforming growth factor-beta, basic fibroblast growth factor, and vascular endothelial cell growth factor mRNA in peripheral blood leukocytes in patients with diabetic retinopathy
Metabolism, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 1172-1178Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0026-0495(99)90134-8
A model system for the study of human retinal angiogenesis: activation of monocytes and endothelial cells and the association with the expression of the monocarboxylate transporter type 1 (MCT-1)
Diabetologia, vol. 42, pp. 870-877Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA small, physiological electric field orients cell division
PNAS, vol. 96, pp. 4942-4946Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCell subpopulations in failed human corneal grafts
British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 83, pp. 1364-1369Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCytokine regulation of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) production by human retinal pigment epithelial cells
Clinical and Experimental Immunology, vol. 115, pp. 288-293Contributions to Journals: ArticlesElectric field-directed cell motility involves up-regulated expression and asymmetric redistribution of the epidermal growth factor receptors and is enhanced by fibronectin and laminin
Molecular Biology of the Cell, vol. 10, pp. 1259-1276Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFas-Fas Ligand-mediated apoptosis within aqueous during idiopathic acute anterior uveitis
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 40, pp. 2258-2267Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGlucose-mediated regulation of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) and TGF-beta receptors in human retinal endothelial cells
Current Eye Research, vol. 19, pp. 162-170Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMacrophages and dendritic cells in IRBP-induced experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis in B10RIII mice
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 40, pp. 3177-3185Contributions to Journals: ArticlesModelling corneal epithelial wound closure in the presence of physiological electric fields via a moving boundary formalism
IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Medicine and Biology, vol. 16, pp. 369-393Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe preprocessing of retinal images for the detection of fluorescein leakage
Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 44, pp. 293-308Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTomographic reconstruction of the retina using a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope
Physiological Measurement, vol. 20, pp. 119Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCytokine regulation of RANTES production by human retinal pigment epithelial cells
Cellular Immunology, vol. 184, no. 1, pp. 37-44Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/cimm.1997.1235
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Lay perspectives: Advantages for health research
British Medical Journal, vol. 316, no. 7129, pp. 463-466Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.316.7129.463
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Choroidal dendritic cell function is regulated by the retinal pigment epithelium
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, vol. 38, no. 4Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Nitric oxide accelerates the onset and increases the severity of experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis through an IFN-gamma-dependent mechanism
The Journal of Immunology, vol. 159, no. 10, pp. 5132-5142Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA fully automated comparative microaneurysm digital detection system
Eye, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 622-628Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1997.166
What determines the site of inflammation in uveitis and chorioretinitis?
Eye, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 162-166Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1997.45
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CD59 and CD48 expressed by rat retinal pigment epithelial cells are major ligands for the CD2-mediated alternative pathway of T cell activation
The Journal of Immunology, vol. 156, no. 10, pp. 3696-3703Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMagnetic resonance imaging of the orbits using a binocular surface coil
British Journal of Radiology, vol. 61, no. 728, pp. 665-672Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-61-728-665