Vision Core Center Grant

The Vision Core Center Grant is one of 38 NEI/NIH competitively awarded and supported facilities in the country. The work of vision scientists across the campus of WSU and at other institutions is facilitated by research modules located in the Department of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences. The modules cost-effectively enhance current, ongoing research by providing investigators with personnel and equipment to advance, with priority, NEI R01 funded research projects and secondarily provide opportunity for collaboration and development of new pilot projects for future NEI grant submissions.

Three modules are available and include:

• Imaging/Histopathology (located in Scott Hall)
• Tissue Culture/Molecular (located in Scott Hall)
• Immunology, located in the Kresge Eye Institute

The modules are staffed by four well-trained research assistants who are knowledgeable in the diverse areas of expertise required for each facility. The directorship of each module is composed of an established vision scientist who has considerable expertise in the respective research field and who actively functions to enhance NEI-supported studies through collaboration.