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
West Virginia University
- Positions
- Professor & Chairman, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
- Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Phone
- 304-293-8411
Wen Tao Deng,
PhD
West Virginia University
- Positions
- Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Jianhai Du,
PhD
West Virginia University
- Positions
- Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
- Phone
- 304-598-6903
Saravanan Kolandaivelu,
PhD
West Virginia University
- Positions
- Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
- Phone
- 304-598-5484
J. Vernon Odom,
PhD
West Virginia University
- Positions
- Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Professor, Department of Neuroscience
- Phone
- 304-598-6959
Michael Robichaux,
PhD
West Virginia University
- Positions
- Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
- Phone
- 304-293-1162
Maxim Sokolov,
PhD
West Virginia University
- Positions
- Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
- Professor, Department of Neuroscience
- Professor, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (SOM)
- Phone
- 304-293-1123
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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.
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