{"id":21,"date":"2013-08-29T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T09:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2020-04-30T11:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T11:12:47","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2020\/01\/steering-committee-2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1391 size-full alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2020\/01\/steering-committee-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1804\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2020\/01\/steering-committee-2020.jpg 1804w, http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2020\/01\/steering-committee-2020-300x47.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2020\/01\/steering-committee-2020-768x120.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2020\/01\/steering-committee-2020-1024x161.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2020\/01\/steering-committee-2020-624x98.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1804px) 100vw, 1804px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>What is the UK Cross-linking Consortium?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The UK Cross-linking Consortium was established in 2013 with funding from the Medical Research Council. As set out in our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/mission-statement\/\">mission statement<\/a>,<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the UK Cross-linking Consortium strives to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Provide a forum for ophthalmologists and vision scientists to develop research collaborations and co-ordinated multi-centre studies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Establish a code of best practice for corneal cross-linking in order to standardise the treatment and its measurement outcomes.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Provide credible information and advice to national bodies about developments in corneal cross-linking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2013\/12\/Cardiff-University.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-448\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2013\/12\/Cardiff-University.png\" alt=\"Cardiff University\" width=\"100\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2013\/12\/mrc-logo-CROPPED.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-449\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2013\/12\/mrc-logo-CROPPED.jpg\" alt=\"mrc logo CROPPED\" width=\"215.8\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2013\/12\/mrc-logo-CROPPED.jpg 636w, http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2013\/12\/mrc-logo-CROPPED-300x132.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2013\/12\/mrc-logo-CROPPED-624x274.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2013\/12\/Biophysics-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-447\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/files\/2013\/12\/Biophysics-Logo.png\" alt=\"Biophysics Logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the UK Cross-linking Consortium? The UK Cross-linking Consortium was established in 2013 with funding from the Medical Research Council. As set out in our mission statement,\u00a0the UK Cross-linking Consortium strives to: Provide a forum for ophthalmologists and vision scientists to develop research collaborations and co-ordinated multi-centre studies. Establish a code of best practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":822,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3RmFt-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}