# Administrative

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · 2024 · $46,009

## Abstract

Abstract
The vision science community at UC Berkeley has a long and distinguished history, having contributed seminal
discoveries in the fields of visual system development, physiology, genetics, psychophysics, and pathology over
the past 50 years. UC Berkeley vision scientists come from diverse academic disciplines, increasing our
understanding of vision at many different levels. Our group consists of 15 Principal Investigators holding 18
NEI R01 grants, along with more than 20 other Vision Scientists, ranging in interests from molecular
mechanisms of retinal physiology and pathology to human visual perception.
We request continued support for our CORE grant to ensure further success in vision research through shared
resources and services. We seek funding for three modules which will support current faculty and attract new
faculty to investigate the visual system. The modules are: (1) Gene Delivery (Xiaohua Gong & John Flannery,
co-directors), designed to provide molecular biology expertise and support in the use of viral vectors for
delivering genes into tissues of the visual system and for creating transgenic animal models of ocular disease.
(2) Optical Imaging (Maria Feller and Austin Roorda, co-directors), which will apply and develop advanced
imaging methods for visualizing cells in both animal and human eyes – designing, building, and facilitating the
use of customized microscopes in individual labs and the Microscopic Imaging Center, and (3) Bioinformatics
(Karthik Shekhar and Karsten Gronert, co-directors), which will facilitate the acquisition, organization, and
analysis of large data sets obtained from genomic, transcriptomic and other -ohmic studies on the visual system,
as well as high-density functional imaging data obtained with fluorescent reporters expressed in the retina or
brain.
UC Berkeley has demonstrated its strong commitment by hiring 6 new faculty members studying vision, with 4
more hires planned for the next several years, enabled by a $50 million philanthropic gift to the newly named
Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry. The UC Berkeley central administration, and the academic centers for
Vision Science on campus (Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology, Optometry, and the Helen Wills
Neuroscience Institute) have all demonstrated their continued dedication specifically to the Vision Science Core
by committing cost-sharing resources equivalent to more than $250,000 over the next 5 years.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10929316
- **Project number:** 5P30EY003176-42
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
- **Principal Investigator:** RICHARD H KRAMER
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $46,009
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-08-01 → 2028-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10929316

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10929316, Administrative (5P30EY003176-42). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10929316. Licensed CC0.

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