What We Do

Facilities

Wet labs:  Four laboratories for cellular and molecular genetic analysis of eye and brain function.

Dry labs:  Four laboratories for measuring the visual capacities and the structural changes in the eyes of patients with ocular disorders.

The Ophthalmology Library

The University of Toronto's A. E. MacDonald Ophthalmology Library is now located in the VSRP's William Callahan Reading Room, a comfortable, beautifully finished and furnished room, with a working fireplace!  This library has extensive journal holdings, texts, electronic media and internet access and has become a key educational and research tool for our scientists and students, as well as for the ophthalmology residents, fellows and staff.

Conference/Meeting Rooms

Our audio-visual, network-connected rooms are in constant use and in demand for presentations not only by our own vision group but also by other hospital departments.  We have a boardroom suitable for meetings of up to 20 people and a Conference Room/Classroom that holds up to 50 people.

Topics/Area

Eye Diseases and Vision Science is one of the UHN's 24 core programs, recognizing the great strength our clinical and basic science researchers have in these areas.

The research carried out in the Division of Vision Science can be grouped into the main themes of :

• Molecular genetics of blinding eye diseases and brain disorders
• Treatment, biophysics and psychophysics of glaucoma
• Eye movement control in patients with age-related macular degeneration
• Retinal degeneration and diabetic retinopathy
• Development of the retina and optic nerve