Dr Mohd Izzudin Hairol, who completed a PhD with our Department of Vision and Hearing Sciences in 2010, has been named amongst five "Outstanding International Scientists" in his native Malaysia.

As part of the honour, Dr Hairol, who is now working as a lecturer in the Department of Optometry within the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) was selected by the Malaysian Government to attend the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates dedicated to Physiology or Medicine from 26 June to 1 July 2011 at Lindau in Germany. 23 Nobel Laureates and 566 young researchers from 77 countries attended this unique forum.

After attending the week-long conference, Dr Hairol returned to Anglia, visiting the Department of Vision and Hearing Sciences after a tour with the other outstanding young Malaysian Scientists that included Addenbrookes Hospital, The Royal Society in London and Oxford University.

Dr Hairol also won a Young Scientist grant from his University to visit the laboratories of Anglia Vision Research during July and August to follow-up on some of his doctoral work, in collaboration with his PhD Supervisor, Dr Sarah Waugh and Dr Monika Formankiewicz.

Speaking of Dr Hairol's visit, Dr Sarah Waugh commented "It was a very great pleasure to have Izzu back in the laboratories of Anglia Vision Research. We have many future collaborative projects in the pipeline and we are very proud of his continuing success, which has been featured in Malaysian national newspapers and is an inspiration to all of our current postgraduate research students."