COLUMBUS, Ohio – The National Institutes of Health has awarded The Ohio State University College of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences a five-year $2.85 million grant to enhance vision research.
The National Eye Institute P30 Core Grant, called The Ohio State University Vision Sciences Research Core Program, brings together vision research scientists from the Colleges of Medicine, Optometry, Veterinary Medicine, Engineering, and Arts and Sciences. The goal is to centralize technology and analytical resources that are too costly to be maintained by an individual investigator and thereby increase research productivity toward saving sight.
"Often research can be very siloed," said Dr. Sayoko Moroi, chair and professor of ophthalmology. "This grant will serve as a bridge to help funded investigators and to foster collaboration across disciplines by providing access to shared state-of-the-art resources, services and training that are essential to the research activities."
The Ohio State University Vision Sciences Research Core Program will support three main research areas or cores:
- Core A provides state-of-the-art equipment and technical expertise to enhance studies by gathering additional data from models of eye diseases.
- Core B establishes a service to analyze large volumes of data, including data generated from genetic sequencing, and assist with research study design.
- Core C provides services and consultation on data science and human center-computing to help with earlier diagnosis of eye disease and to improve treatments and outcomes. In addition, this core will leverage access to resources like the Translational Data Analytics Institute and the Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking in Health Services and Implementation Science Research (CATALYST).
"The award is a testament to the strength of the vision research that is being performed here at Ohio State," said Dr. Carol R. Bradford, dean of the College of Medicine. "Research is an integral part of what makes us such a force in the global medical community."
