Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Innate immunity
- Angiogenesis
- Retinal degeneration

Steven Bassnett, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Understanding the cellular basis of transparency and accommodation

Anjali Bhorade, MD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Glaucoma - adult, open angle
- Neurological disorders of the eye
- Neuropathy as it affects the visual system
- Paralytic and restrictive ocular motility disorders
- Blepharospasm
- Adult strabismus
- Ultrasonography

Shiming Chen, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas

Brian Clark, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Understand the transcriptional landscape to 1) select an individual progenitor cell to exit the cell cycle, and 2) differentiate as a specific retinal cell type at the appropriate developmental time

Thomas Ferguson, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Role of autophagy in the pathogenesis of eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other retinal degenerative diseases

Mae Gordon, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension (Biostatistics)

Lynn Hassman, MD, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Uveitis
- Molecular signatures in uveitis
- Bioinformatics
- Therapeutic biomarkers
- Precision medicine

Andrew Huang, MD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Corneal epithelial wound healing
- Corneal neovascularization
- Corneal stromal dystrophies
- Corneal Stem cells and Dry eye

Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Neural circuit assembly and visual processing in the retina

Peter Lukasiewicz, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Neurotransmitter
- Synapse
- Glutamate transporter
- GABA receptor
- Retinal information processing

Todd Margolis, MD, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the establishment and maintenance of latent neuronal infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV)

Joshua Morgan, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Use advanced cellular imaging techniques to investigate how neurons organize themselves into image processing circuits

Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Pathogenic mechanisms in diabetic retinopathy
- Neuronal damage in diabetes mellitus

Phil Ruzycki, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Comprehensive analysis of genomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic datasets to understand visual system development and disease

Alan Shiels, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Lens & Cornea: Cataract, Presbyopia & Corneal Dystorphies (Molecular Biology/ Genetics)

Florentina Soto, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Role of ATP-mediated (purinergic) neurotransmission in the mammalian retina

Lawrence Tychsen, MD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Neural mechanisms in strabismus

Gregory Van Stavern, MD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neuroimmunology
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Philip Williams, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Preserving and repairing the nervous system following trauma and disease

Takeshi Yoshimatsu, PhD
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Topics
- Molecular and cellular basis of the functional development and regeneration of the vertebrate visual system