Investigators and Their Research Interests
Kenneth Alexander, PhD
Noninvasive techniques for evaluating the pathophysiology of retinal degenerations
Dimitri Azar, MD
Corneal wound healing, the role of matrix metalloproteinases in the cornea,
mathematical modeling and optics in refractive surgery and presbyopic
treatments
Norman Blair, MD
Pathophysiologic basis of hypoxic visual loss
Dingcai Cao, PhD
Human psychophysics and electrophysiology, clinical applications for evaluating visual functions in patients affected by retinal diseases
Robert Chang, PhD
Matrix metalloproteinases and anti-angiogenic factors in corneal neovascularization
Ali Djalilian, MD
Cornea and ocular surface disease, ocular surface reconstruction, transplantation, limbal stem cell biology, tissue engineering
Michael Grassi, MD
Genes that regulate retinal vascular growth in development and disease and identification of pathways that are amenable to intervention with small molecule therapies
Charlotte Joslin, OD
Acanthamoeba keratitis, corneal refractive power post refractive surgery
Sandeep Jain, MD
Dry eye disease, corneal nerve regeneration
Paul Knepper, MD, PhD
Cause, prevention and treatment of primary open angle glaucoma
Nalin Kumar, PhD
Molecular structure and function of gap junctions in the eye
Jennifer Lim, MD
Clinical trials for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic
retinopathy, immunohistochemistry of surgical specimens, anti-angiogenesis
treatments
Jason McAnany, PhD
Development of noninvasive techniques for evaluating visual function in patients with eye disease
David Pepperberg, PhD
Mechanisms of light and dark adaptation in rod photoreceptors, and the development of bioengineered structures for interaction with post-synaptic membrane receptors in retina and other neural tissues
Metabolism of retinoids (vitamin A derivatives) within the eye tissues that are needed by the rod and cone photoreceptors for their visual function
Mahnaz Shahidi, PhD
Development of optical imaging systems for quantitative assessment of eye diseases
Deepak Shukla, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of viral entry into human corneal cells
Marlos A.G. Viana, PhD
Symmetry studies
Beatrice Y.J.T. Yue, PhD
Functional roles of glaucoma genes and molecular basis of keratoconus