By bringing together five different institutions to work toward a common research goal of eradicating blinding disorders really is more than each institution could accomplish on its own.

Principal Investigators from all five of the participant institutions have major funding grants from the National Eye Institute (NEI). Currently there are 23 grants being funded from the NEI.

Grant/Project Titles:

• CELLULAR NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE RETINA
• COLLABORATIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF MYOPIA IN COMET CHILDREN 2-COORDINATING CTR
• CORTICAL AND SUBCORTICAL CONTROL OF SACCADES
• ER STRESS AND DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
• FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX
• FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF COLOR SELECTIVE NEURONS IN PRIMATE VISUAL CORTEX
• FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF RETINAL GAP JUNCTIONS IN VISUAL PROCESSING
• INHIBITORY PLASTICITY IN VISUAL CORTICAL CIRCUITS
• INTERACTION OF ISL1 AND POU4F2 IN RETINAL DEVELOPMENT
• INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION IN THE LENS
• ISOPRENOID METABOLISM IN THE RETINA
• LACTIC ACID TRANSPORT ACROSS THE CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM
• LENS INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION, CONNEXINS AND CATARACT
• MECHANISMS OF SIGNAL-DEPENDENT PHOTORECEPTOR PROTEIN LOCALIZATION AND TRANSPORT
• MOLECULAR AND CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY OF RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY
• NEURAL BASIS OF SHAPE FROM TEXTURE
  
• NEURONAL MECHANISMS OF SELECTIVE ATTENTION IN EARLY VISION
• REGULATION AND FUNCTION OF THE MATRICELLULAR PROTEIN CCN1 IN ISCHEMIC RETINOPATHY
• RETINAL PROGENITORS FOR VISION RESCUE
• RETINAL STEM CELL CULTURE AND CHARACTERIZATION
  
• ROLE OF AQUAPORIN-0 FOR CELL-TO-CELL ADHESION AND LENS TRANSPARENCY
• ROLE OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX IN RETINAL DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE
• SHORT-TERM TRAINING STUDENTS IN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
• STUDY OF THE ER-MITOCHONDRIA INTERFACE AS A NEW TARGET IN DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
• VOLUME REGULATION IN NORMAL AND CATARACTOUS LENSES