Research pioneered by

Steven Bassnett, PhD
Grace Nelson Lacy Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
- Email: bassnett@nospam.wustl.edu
Refractive development, exfoliation glaucoma, establishment and loss of lens transparency, structural and functional characterization of fibrillin polymers in the eye

Shiming Chen, PhD
Dr. Bernard and Janet R. Becker Distinguished Professor in Ophthalmology
- Email: chenshiming@nospam.wustl.edu
Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas

Brian Clark, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Analysis of the temporally regulated program of retinal cell type specification

Joseph Corbo, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Immunology
- Email: jcorbo@nospam.wustl.edu
(1) Transcriptional networks in the retina; (2) the mechanistic basis of color vision; (3) the cis-regulatory basis of human uniqueness and neuropsychiatric disease

Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD
Janet & Bernard Becker Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Visual system neuroscience and vision restoration
Kerschensteiner Lab

Josh Morgan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Email: jlmorgan@nospam.wustl.edu
Using advanced cellular imaging techniques to investigate how neurons organize themselves into image processing circuits

Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Email: rajagopalr@nospam.wustl.edu
Pathogenic mechanisms in diabetic retinopathy and neuronal damage in diabetes mellitus