Tri-Institutional Training Program in Vision Research

The faculties of Weill Cornell Medical College, Sloan-Kettering Institute, and The Rockefeller University sponsor a Tri-Institutional Training Program in Vision Research funded by the National Eye Institute. A diversified body of distinguished faculty provides opportunities for research in neural regeneration, development and plasticity, signal transduction, information processing, and disease states at the level of the eye and brain and makes use of methodologies that include molecular and cell biology, anatomy, electrophysiology, imaging, behavior, modeling, and epidemiology. The program is designed primarily for pre-doctoral students, but limited support for postdoctoral fellows is available. Selection of fellows for entrance into the Training Program will be made following admission into the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences or the graduate program at The Rockefeller University. Interested students should contact the appropriate graduate programs or the Co-Directors of the Training Program, Drs. Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan (212 746-2272) and Jonathan Victor (212 746-2343).

Program Faculty

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Emre Aksay, PhD temporal integration in neural systems, WCMC

Carl Blobel, MD, PhD cell-cell interactions and metalloprotease-disintegrins, WCMC

Scott Brodie, MD, PhD retinal degenerations, clinical electrophysiology, WCMC

B. J. Casey, PhD attention, cognition, and brain development, WCMC

David Cobrinik, PhD retinoblastoma, WCMC

Donald D'Amico, MD macular degeneration and diabetes-related eye disease, WCMC

Silvia Finnemann, PhD RPE cell biology and age-related retinal degeneration, WCMC

Charles Gilbert, MD, PhD cortical information processing and plasticity, RU

Ulrich Hammerling, PhD vitamin A, signal transduction, mitochondria, bioenergetics, neurotrophic growth factors, SKI

Barbara Hempstead, MD, PhD neurotrophic growth factors, WCMC

Xin-Yun Huang, PhD GPCR/G-protein signaling, regulation of retinal guanylyl cyclases, WCMC

Francis Lee, MD, PhD neurotrophic growth factors, brain development, WCMC

Bruce Knight, BA dynamics of neural networks, mathematical modeling, RU

Anant K. Menon, PhD retinal lipid biology, flippases, WCMC

Partha Mitra, PhD image and signal processing, visuomotor systems, WCMC

Dimitar Nikolov, PhD structural biology of axon guidance, SKI

Sheila Nirenberg, PhD coding and computation in the retina, WCMC

Glen Prusky, PhD visual plasticity and repair, WCMC

Keith Purpura, PhD intracortical interactions and information processing, WCMC

Shahin Rafii, MD stem cells, WCMC

Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan, MD cell polarity, retinal cell biology, WCMC

Mark Rosenblatt, MD, PhD corneal wound repair, WCMC

Thomas Sakmar, MD rhodopsin and photototransduction, retinis pigmentosa, RU

Ching-Hwa Sung, PhD molecular basis of retinitis pigmentosa protein targeting in neuronal retina, WCMC

Jonathan Victor, MD, PhD cortical physiology, mathematical modeling, WCMC

John Wagner, PhD trophic factors, signal transduction, WCMC

Torsten Wiesel, MD cortical functional architecture and development, RU

Michael W. Young, PhD molecular and genetic studies of behavior, RU

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For further information: Institutional home pages and contacts

Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

445 East 69th Street
New York, NY 10065
212 746-6565
Neuroscience at WCMC
The Graduate Program in Neuroscience
The Graduate Program in Cell Biology and Genetics
The Graduate Program in Physiology, Biophysics, & Systems Biology
The Graduate Program in Biochemistry & Structural Biology
The Graduate Program in Pharmacology
The Graduate Program in Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
Weill Cornell Medical College

The Rockefeller University

Office of Graduate and Post-Graduate Studies
Box 270
1230 York Avenue
New York, NY 10065
212 327-8086
The David Rockefeller Graduate Program at RU

Tri-Institutional Training Programs

Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine
Tri-Institutional Training Program in Chemical Biology

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Last revised: 7/1/08
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