The whole is more than the sum of its parts.   -Aristotle

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 29 grants being funded from the NEI.

Grant/Project Titles:

• ACCOMMODATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF REFRACTIVE STATE
  
• A RIBOZYME RESCUE STRATEGY FOR AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA
• CELLULAR NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE RETINA
• COLLABORATIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF MYOPIA IN COMET CHILDREN 2-COORDINATING CTR
• COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION IN GLAUCOMA
• CONTROL OF EYELIDS IN NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL STATES
• CORTICAL AND SUBCORTICAL CONTROL OF VISUAL ATTENTION
• CUE RELIABILITY AND DEPTH CALIBRATION DURING SPACE PERCEPTION
• CYR61/CCN1-INDUCED ANGIOGENESIS AND VASCULOGENESIS IN THE RETINA
• FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX
• GENETIC CONTROL OF EYE SPECIFICATION
• GENETIC REGULATORY NETWORK CONTROLLING VERTEBRATE EYE FORMATION
• INFORMATION TRANSFER THROUGH GANGLION CELLS
• INHIBITORY PLASTICITY IN VISUAL CORTICAL CIRCUITS
• INTERACTION OF ISL1 AND POU4F2 IN RETINAL DEVELOPMENT
  
• INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION IN THE LENS
• INTERPHOTORECEPTOR RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
• ISOPRENOID METABOLISM IN THE RETINA
• LENS INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION, CONNEXINS AND CATARACT
• MECHANISMS OF COLOR DETECTION, INDUCTION AND ADAPTATION
• MECHANISMS OF SIGNAL-DEPENDENT PHOTORECEPTOR PROTEIN LOCALIZATION AND TRANSPORT
• MOLECULAR AND CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY OF RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY
• MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN STEROID-INDUCED GLAUCOMA
  
• MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF PHOTORECEPTOR FUNCTION
• 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
• ROLE OF MICROPHTHALMIA/MITF FACTOR IN EYE DEVELOPMENT
• SHORT-TERM TRAINING STUDENTS IN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
• STRUCTURE/FUNCTION OF SHORT WAVELENGTH VISUAL PIGMENTS
• SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS IN RETINA
• TUMOR INITIATING CELLS IN RETINOBLASTOMA
• VOLUME REGULATION IN NORMAL AND CATARACTOUS LENSES