Molecular Ophthalmology

The Department of Molecular Ophthalmology is an independent, internationally competitive laboratory, established to investigate the cause and development of eye diseases.  We use cutting edge technologies in cell and molecular biology to develop treatments for blinding diseases.

The Department's team of scientists including cell biologists, virologists, chemists, gene therapy experts, developmental biologists and molecular biologists work closely with ophthalmologists to achieve our objectives.

Molecular Ophthalmology has several major international collaborations and partnerships with a wide range of Australian and overseas institutions, and we are successfully collaborating with the pharmaceutical industry in joint research projects.