Visual Systems
Eye Diseases
- Anophthalmia & glaucoma
- Birth defects
- Cancer
- Developmental disorders
- Eye diseases
- Optic nerve aplasia/hypoplasia
- Viral diseases
- Leber congenital amaurosis
- Retinal degenerative diseases
- Retinitis pigmentosa
- Cone-Rod degeneration
View a complete list of the diseases that our students and faculty are fighting.
Research in this area is designed to bring basic research to Pediatric Ophthalmology and foster research collaborations with the clinical faculty.
Researchers investigate the formation of different components and processes of the eye including the retina, lens, vasculature and color vision, with the goal of providing insight into the mechanism of ocular diseases. To facilitate these aims visual system researchers use a variety of model organisms including Drosophila, frog, chick and mouse.
Faculty
- Nadean Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Transcription factors required for specification of retinal progenitor cells into neurons [Visit the Brown Lab]
- Tiffany Cook, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Molecular basis of eye development [Visit the Cook Lab]
- Rashmi Hegde, PhD, Associate Professor
- Structural biology of proteins in embryonic cellfate determination, and proteins involved in the life- and infection-cycles of the cancer-associated papillomaviruses [Visit the Hegde Lab]
- Richard Lang, PhD, Professor
- Eye development with an emphasis on lens induction and vascular patterning [Visit the Lang Lab]
For more information about the Molecular and Developmental Biology Program at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati, email mdbprog@cchmc.org or call 513-636-4545. You can also apply online at our application page.
