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Dr Jared Ching is an Associate Consultant with the National Healthcare Group Eye Institute (NHGEI) at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

Dr Ching first completed a Master of Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia, investigating novel anti-tumour drugs under Professor Mark Searcey. After obtaining Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, he studied Medicine at the University of Bristol, while working as a Locum Pharmacist. He subsequently pursued a Research Fellowship at the Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology at the University of Melbourne.

He was then appointed as an Academic Foundation Doctor at the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen and worked in the fields of neural stem cell and glioblastoma electric field cell migration under Professor Colin McCaig. He then took up a post as a Specialist Registrar in Ophthalmology in the East of England, before being awarded a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship at the University of Cambridge where he undertook further laboratory and animal research in the John Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair and MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

Dr Ching has completed Surgical Retina Fellowships in Norwich, Cambridge and The Bristol Eye Hospital. He has also completed an Ocular Oncology Fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital where he holds a research affiliation. Currently he is Co-Principle Investigator with Professor Zhong You, investigating novel ocular surgical devices at the University of Oxford. He is currently appointed as a Visiting Lecturer at Yokohama City University at the Department of Ophthalmology and Micro-technology under Professor Kazuaki Kadonosono having been awarded the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and Keeler Scholarship to travel to Japan and a research grant from the TFC Frost Charitable Trust to investigate Minimally invasive retinal surgery.

His research interests include minimally invasive surgery, cancer cell biology and regenerative medicine.