About Dr. Mohamed Dirani

Dr. Mo Dirani is the founding Managing Director of Plano Pte Ltd and an adjunct Research Fellow at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), Singapore.

Mo completed his Ph.D. at the age of 25 years (2006), where he established the world’s largest twin study to investigate the genetic and environmental risk factors of myopia. In 2008, Mo undertook a post-doctoral appointment at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he co-led a study that produced one the first and most cited scientific papers that provided novel insights into the protective nature of outdoor activity in the development of myopia.

Since completing his Ph.D., Mo has published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts in prestigious medical journals, has been an invited speaker across the globe as an expert in myopia, published several Government commissioned reports and has received several competitive scholarships, fellowships and scientific awards.

More recently (2015-2017), Mo led Australia’s first nation-wide study to assess the burden of blindness in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, completed his MBA at the Australian Institute of Business (AIB) and is a graduate from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).