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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Targeting a Human Protein Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Mice
The most common strategy for beating the coronavirus is attacking the viral proteins responsible for disease, but the Mahajan Lab and colleagues focused their research on a human protein that interacts with the virus.
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Providing hope for eye cancer patients
Through funding from The Cancer League, a local cancer charity, Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, MHS, and Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD, associate professors of ophthalmology at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford, are the first to identify proteins from inside the eye that predict survival risk in patients with a form of melanoma cancer in the eye.
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Telelgenetics for COVID19 Manuscript published
Congrats to resident, Dr. Ahmad Al-Moujahed (class of 2022) for authoring a recent publication on "Telegenetics for inherited retinal diseases in the COVID-19 environment."…
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Dr. Tawna Roberts selected as co-vice chair for pediatric vision research group
The Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University is proud to congratulate Tawna Roberts, OD, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology (pediatric), for being selected as a co-vice chair for the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG).
