Research
Research Sites
Byers Eye Institute at Stanford
2452 Watson Court
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer Center for Vision Research
Human Subjects Research
2370 Watson Court
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Laboratory Sciences
1651 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
The Department of Ophthalmology Faculty are advancing research into the origins of ocular diseases and creating the newest diagnostic and treatment modalities. The world-leading community at Stanford University conducts clinical trials and basic and translational research in such areas as neuroprotection and optic nerve regeneration, retinal pathophysiology and genetics, retinal neurobiology and prosthetic vision, novel microsurgical tools and therapeutic lasers, advanced diagnostics and imaging, ophthalmic tissue engineering and corneal prosthetics, ocular microbiology and stem cells.
We invite all of our prospective donors, patients and collaborators to explore our research in the basic and translational sciences and in clinical care.
We also encourage you to browse our career opportunities for faculty, career opportunities for staff, and opportunities to support vision research at Stanford.
Research News
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Kicking off Stanford’s SIGHT Glaucoma Registry
Stanford Insights from Glaucoma Health Tracking (SIGHT) is the ophthalmology department’s first comprehensive disease database combining all electronic record data, imaging results, and selected surgical patient biologic samples, including aqueous and blood.
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The Risk of Ignoring Signs of Retinal Damage
It may begin as a few dark specks or wavy lines floating across the field of vision, or lightning-like flashes in the corner of the eye…
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Multidisciplinary team develops new CRISPR platform for gene therapy
Gene therapy, in conjunction with the disruptive technology called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of previously incurable eye diseases.
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YOU'RE INVITED: 2022 Optic Disc Drusen Hybrid Conference
The 2022 Optic Disc Drusen Hybrid Conference will take place May 31, 2022 at Stanford and on Zoom.