Dr Martin Snead

I have a special interest in all aspects of retinal and vitreous surgery, particularly retinal detachment repair, ocular trauma, macular surgery, surgery for the severe late complications of proliferative diabetic retinopathy and surgery for the complications following cataract surgery.

I am Director of Vitreoretinal Research at Cambridge University investigating the molecular pathology of retinal detachment, particularly in bilateral and familial retinal detachment and the Stickler syndromes (www.vitreoretinalservice.org). I am the service lead for the NHS England nationally commissioned Highly Specialised Services diagnostic service for patients and families with this disorder (www.specialisedservices.nhs.uk).

MB BS MA MD DO FRCS FRCOphth

1990: Royal Eye Hospital Prize (Lond.)

1995: Spencer Walker Prize

2009: Jessie Mole Medal (University of Oxford)

2016: Bayer Ophthalmology “Gold” Award

2017: Master, Oxford Ophthalmological Congress

Registered with the General Medical Council (Reg. No. 2981453)

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

Fellow Cambridge Philosophical Society

Member of the British and Eire Association of Vitreoretinal Surgeons

Academic Organiser Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium 2001 - present

Council Member Oxford Ophthalmological Congress

Master, Oxford Ophthalmological Congress 2017

Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

Member Club Jules Gonin

Snead MP, Richards AJ, McNinch AM, Alexander P, Martin H, Nixon TRW, Bale P, Shenker N, Brown S, Blackwell AM, Poulson AV (2021). Stickler syndrome – lessons from a national cohort. Eye, Oct 5:1–7. doi: 10.1038/s41433-021-01776-8.

Spickett C, Hysi P, Hammond CJ, Prescott A, Fincham GS, Poulson AV, McNinch AM, Richards AJ, Snead MP (2016). Deep Intronic Sequence Variants in COL2A1 Affect the Alternative Splicing Efficiency of Exon 2, and May Confer a Risk for Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment. Hum Mutat.  37(10):1085-96

Fincham, GS, Pasea L, Carroll, C, McNinch AM, Poulson AV, Richards AJ, Scott JD, Snead MP.  (2014). Prevention of retinal detachment in Stickler syndrome: the Cambridge Prophylactic Cryotherapy protocol. Ophthalmology, 121(8):1588-97

Richards AJ, Fincham G, McNinch A, Hill D, Castle B, Lees M, Moore A, Poulson AV, Scott JD, Snead MP (2013). Alternative splicing modifies the effect of mutations in COL11A1 and results in recessive type 2 Stickler syndrome with profound hearing loss. J Med Genet., 50(11):765-71

Snead MP, McNinch AM, Poulson AV, Bearcroft P, Silverman B, Gomersall P, Parfect V, Richards AJ (2011): Stickler Syndrome, Ocular only variants and a key diagnostic role for the Ophthalmologist. Eye, 25:1389-400

Richards AJ, Laidlaw M, Whittaker J, Treacy R, Rai H, Bearcroft P, Baguley DM, Poulson A, Ang A, Scott JD, Snead MP (2006) : High Efficiency of Mutation Detection in Type 1 Stickler Syndrome using a Two Stage Approach: Vitreoretinal Assessment Coupled with Exon Sequencing for Screening COL2A1. Hum. Mutat. 27:696-704.

Richards, AJ., Martin, S., Yates, JRW., Baguley, DM., Pope, FM., Scott, JD., Snead, MP.,(2000): COL2A1 exon 2 mutations: Relevance to the Stickler and Wagner syndromes.. Br. J. Ophthalmol., 84, 364 – 371

Richards, AJ., Pope, FM., Yates, JRW., Scott, JD., Snead, MP. (1996): A family with Stickler syndrome Type 2 Has a Mutation in the COL11A1 Gene Resulting in the Substitution of  Glycine 97 by Valine in α1(XI) Collagen. Hum. Mol. Genet., 5, 1339 - 1343.