# Research Training in Visual Sciences

> **NIH NIH T32** · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · 2024 · $224,668

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
 This is a resubmission of a competing renewal application of the Visual Sciences Training (VST)
Grant from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM, T32 EY007001) which was first awarded by the National Institutes
of Health in 1975. Since that time, this program has trained 72 predoctoral students and 88 postdoctoral fellows,
and many of them have become leaders in vision and ophthalmic research. Trainees trained during the last
5 years have published 45 papers. The VST program has 21 preceptors from 8 departments and 8 graduate
PhD programs in BCM, carrying 15 active qualifying (+ 2X NCE) R01 grants supported from the National Eye
Institute and 36 grants from other federal research agencies or foundations.
The Program is directed by Samuel M. Wu, PhD, who has been a preceptor on this training grant for 38 years,
and has been the Principal Investigator and Program Director since 1994. Dr. Wu is assisted by a training
Grant coordinator, Jessica Nollkamper, and three committees, the Steering Committee, Recruitment/Admissions
Committee and Academic Progress Committee. The objective of this training program is to train competent
basic and translational vision researchers, and to equip them with cutting edge scientific ideas and techniques
to face scientific and medical challenges of the 21st century. Trainees are required to take a number of didactic
vision, neuroscience, genetics and ethics courses, and expected to acquire comprehensive knowledge of the
entire visual system and the associated diseases, and to learn state-of-the-art experimental techniques.
Additionally, a trainee will be guided by his/her preceptors (and other members of the program) into at least
one specialized area of the visual system, one research discipline and one disease in great depth, so that he/she
can initiate an independent research project after training.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10885001
- **Project number:** 5T32EY007001-47
- **Recipient organization:** BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Samuel M Wu
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $224,668
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1975-07-01 → 2028-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10885001

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10885001, Research Training in Visual Sciences (5T32EY007001-47). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10885001. Licensed CC0.

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