Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI)

The Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) was conceived with the foresight of a visionary leader, the late Professor Arthur Lim. Professor Lim, who is the founder and first Medical Director of the SNEC, had keenly pursued the idea of an eye research institute in a period of time when research was hardly in vogue in Singapore.

SERI’s mission is to conduct high-impact eye research that prevents blindness, low vision and major eye diseases common to Singaporeans and Asians. SERI has also over 220 adjunct faculties from various eye departments, biomedical institutes and tertiary centres in Singapore. SERI has published an impressive array of 3,405 scientific papers, and has secured external peer-reviewed competitive grants worth more than $309 million.