# Core Facilities for Vision Research

> **NIH NIH P30** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $800,000

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
Columbia University has a large and vibrant vision research community supported by the National Eye
Institute, with 22 qualifying R01 grants and 44 vision scientists in all. Vision research at Columbia ranges
across a gamut of topics, from genetic studies of retinal and visual brain development in Drosophila and
mice to studies of human retinal disease. Computational, neurophysiological, light microscopic, genetic,
biochemical, and clinical techniques focus on a range of problems including the development of the eye
and the visual brain, the mechanisms of ocular angiogenesis, the systems neuroscience of visual and
oculomotor behavior, and the pathophysiology, genetics, and treatment of retinal diseases such as
macular degeneration, myopia, and glaucoma. To support this vision research we are applying to renew
our National Eye Institute grant 1P30 EY019007, which will continue to support a set of Core Facilities for
Vision Research and enable services that could not be provided by individual research grants. The grant
supports three research cores: i) an Instrumentation Fabrication and Design Core that designs and builds
custom equipment; ii) a Computer Support Core that performs support and maintenance for the hundreds
of computers, including an X-grid cluster and real-time laboratory computer-based interface used by the
vision research community; and iii) a Histology and Imaging Core, which provides histological, in vivo, and
fluorescent microscopy services. The grant not only supports currently funded investigators with NEI
R01s, but also underwrites the work of vision scientists supported by other NEI funding mechanisms,
other NIH institutes, and young investigators gathering data in order to submit their first NEI grants. This
grant facilitates collaboration among members of the Columbia vision research community, and
encourages scientists not currently engaged in vision research to use their expertise in problems related
to vision.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10016318
- **Project number:** 5P30EY019007-10
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** MICHAEL E. GOLDBERG
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $800,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2010-08-01 → 2021-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10016318

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10016318, Core Facilities for Vision Research (5P30EY019007-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10016318. Licensed CC0.

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