Announcing DeepMind Health research partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital

We founded DeepMind to make the world a better place by developing technologies that help address some of society's toughest challenges.So were excited to announce our first medical research project with an NHS Trust.Well be working with Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, one of the worlds leading eye hospitals with a 200 year track record in clinical care, research and education.This collaboration came about when Pearse Keane, a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields, contacted DeepMind to explore how we could work together on two specific conditions that cause sight loss: diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Together, these affect more than 625,000 people in the UK and over 100 million people worldwide.