Department of Ophthalmology Visual Sciences

Department Resources

The department of ophthalmology and visual sciences receives funding from a variety of federal agencies, nonprofit organizations and private foundations supporting vision research.  These include the agencies , organizations and foundations listed below.

Department Highlights

  • Currently, faculty is receiving more than $23 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health primarily from the National Eye Institute (NEI)
  • 10 NEI grants have been awarded to our 6 basic science faculty
  • Our basic science faculty participate in multidisciplinary research underway in a number of Einstein's centers
  • Our new office of clinical trials is designed to set up and perform a wide-range of ophthalmology clinical trials
  • Beginning in 2011, the department is supported by the Research to Prevent Blindness Unrestricted Grant