**About the Editors**

#### **Mark Willcox**

Professor Willcox is a medical microbiologist who has worked for many years in the area of infections of medical devices. His laboratory focuses on the development of novel antimicrobials that have applications as antibiotics and disinfectants. He also develops new antimicrobial coatings that can be used for a variety of purposes, including coating medical devices to reduce associated infections. He has taken several of these through to pre-clinical testing, and developed antimicrobial contact lenses up to Phase III clinical trials.

#### **Fiona Stapleton**

Professor Stapleton is a clinical scientist with expertise in epidemiology, and experience of basic and clinical research in the fields of corneal infection, dry eyes, and contact-lens-related disease. She was awarded her PhD by City University and Moorfields Eye Hospital in London for her research on the pathogenesis and epidemiology of contact-lens-related disease, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at University College London.

#### **Debarun Dutta**

Dr Dutta's research interests include contact lenses and dry eyes. His dry eye research examines the anterior ocular surface and tear film, tear lipid layer, effect of preservatives and surfactants on ocular comfort. His contact lens research examines contact-lens-related adverse events, particularly infiltrative events, the development of novel antimicrobial agents, antimicrobial peptides, the mechanisms and activity of antimicrobial peptides, and the aetiology of the development of keratitis.
