Research Labs and Branches

• Office of the Clinical Director
• Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications
• Unit on Clinical Investigation of Retinal Disease

• Clinical and Translational Immunology Section
• Experimental Immunology Section
• Immunoregulation Section
• Molecular Immunology Section

• Molecular Mechanisms Section
• Section on Protein Structure and Function
• Section on Retinal Ganglion Cell Biology

• Neuronal Networks Section
• Visual Circuits Section
• Sensation, Cognition, and Action Section
• Visual Decision Making Section

• Retinal Cell Biology & Degeneration Section
• Retinal Development, Genetics and Therapy Section

• Bioinformatics Group
• Clinical and Translational Imaging Section
• Human Visual Function Core
• Medical Genetics and Ophthalmic Genomics Unit
• Pediatric, Developmental & Genetic Ophthalmology Section
• Protein Biochemistry & Molecular Modeling Group
• Ocular and Stem Cell Translational Research Section
• Ophthalmic Clinical Genetics Section
• Ophthalmic Genomics Laboratory
• Ophthalmic Molecular Genetics Section
• Translational Research Core

• Neuro-Immune Regulome Unit
• Photoreceptor Physiology Group
• Retinal Neurophysiology Section
• Section on Molecular Structure and Functional Genomics

• Biological Imaging Core Facility
  • Confocal Microscopy Unit
  • Histology Unit
  • Structural Biology Unit
  • Transmission Electron Microscopy Unit
• EyeGENE (Ophthalmic Disease Genotyping and Phenotyping)
• Flow Cytometry Core Facility
• Genetic Engineering Core
• NEIBank
• Ocular Gene Therapy Core
• Visual Function Core

NEI scientists are part of the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program (IRP). With 1,200 Principal Investigators and more than 4,000 Postdoctoral Fellows conducting basic, translational, and clinical research, the IRP is the largest biomedical research institution on earth. We are NEI Intramural.