Vision Research

WVU as an institution is committed to promoting Vision Research at WVU Eye Institute. Researchers have access to 5,000 sq. feet of laboratory space located on the third floor of the WVU Eye Institute. The Vision Research program, directed by Visvanathan Ramamurthy, PhD is staffed by laboratory scientists who are making profound contributions toward advancing vision science and have collaborative partnerships with other WVU departments and other research institutions to build vision-related research.

Specific Aims of the Institute's Research Program

To expand the research program in visual neuroscience.
To provide translational research in visual neuroscience.
To establish collaborative partnerships with other WVU departments and other research institutions to build vision-related research.
To promote vision health.

Basic research Group

Visvanathan Ramamurthy, PhD

Positions: Professor & Chairman, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine; Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Phone: 304-293-8411

Wen Tao Deng, PhD

Positions: Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

Jianhai Du, PhD

Positions: Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Phone: 304-598-6903

Saravanan Kolandaivelu, PhD

Positions: Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Phone: 304-598-5484

J. Vernon Odom, PhD

Positions: Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Phone: 304-598-6959

Michael Robichaux, PhD

Positions: Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Phone: 304-293-1162

Maxim Sokolov, PhD

Positions: Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine; Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (SOM)
Phone: 304-293-1123

Play Making untreatable vision problems treatable: WVU receives $11M for visual sciences research center — Duration: 1:38

Making untreatable vision problems treatable: WVU receives $11M for visual sciences research center

West Virginia has one of the highest rates of visual disability in the U.S. To help solve that problem, WVU has received a collaborative grant from the National Eye Institute to establish a visual-sciences Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. WVU is just the second university in the nation to receive this type of funding for a visual-sciences COBRE. The grant will enable research that spans WVU’s schools and advances new ways to prevent, treat and slow the progression of vision problems that are currently incurable.
Learn more about the WVU School of Medicine at https://medicine.hsc.wvu.edu/