Dr Cynthia Yu-Wai-Man is a Reader in Ophthalmology and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon. She leads the Glaucoma and Therapeutics Lab and the UK Glaucoma BioResource at King's College London. She is the Founder of Precise Therapeutics. Her lab is focused on advanced therapeutics, implants and translational research.

Dr Yu-Wai-Man is the Deputy Director of King's Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO), King's College London NIHR Integrated Academic Training (IAT) Programme Co-Lead, and Lead for Academic Development and Mentoring in the School of Life Course and Population Sciences.

Dr Yu-Wai-Man has been awarded over £3.8 million in research funding over the last 6 years. She has received several prestigious awards as PI, namely the Rosetrees Translational Award (2026), MRC Transition Fellowship (2025), Matt Wilson Scholarship (2023), Heatley Prize and Medal (2022), MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship (2020), King's Prize Fellowship (2019), NIHR CRN Greenshoots Funding (2019), MRC Confidence-in-Concept Grant (2016), ARVO International Travel Research Grant (2016), EUREKA Translational Medicine Fellowship (2015), NANOS Best Oral Presentation Prize (2013), INOS Best Research Poster Prize (2012), and RCOphth Ivor Levy Research Prize (2011).