Professor Jacqueline van der Spuy is a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. She is the Director of the MRes in Brain Sciences programme at UCL, Chair of the Board of Examiners of the Institute of Ophthalmology-Moorfields Eye Hospital Clinical Ophthalmology programmes and the Institute Departmental Graduate Tutor for Postgraduate Research.

Her research focuses on understanding the molecular pathology of congenital and early onset inherited retinal dystrophies and the development of targeted therapeutic interventions for these conditions through the application of advances in stem cell and gene editing technologies.