Vision Science Faculty

Joseph Besharse, PhD, ARVO
Marjorie & Joseph Heil Professor in Ophthalmology Research Director, the Eye Institute
Cellular and molecular basis of circadian rhythmicity; the cellular basis of membrane turnover in retinal photoreceptors

Joseph Carroll, PhD
Richard O. Schultz, MD / Ruth Works Professor of Ophthalmology Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Biophysics, and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy Director, Advanced Ocular Imaging Program
High-resolution retinal imaging & structure-function relationships in the human retina
Ross Collery, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Iris S. Kassem, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy
Amblyopia, pediatric cataracts, pediatric eye trauma, retinopathy of prematurity, strabismus

Daniel Lipinski, MSc, DPhil
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV)-mediated gene therapy, diabetic retinopathy, inherited retinal disease (e.g., Retinitis pigmentosa), age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
Vision Research Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin




Edgar A. DeYoe, PhD
Principal Investigator; Professor, Department of Radiology; Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy; Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics; Graduate Faculty, Programs in Cell & Developmental Biology, Neuroscience and Biophysics; Section of Imaging Research, Division of Imaging Sciences


Adjunct Professors
Murray H. Brilliant, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and Director of the Center for Human Genetics (at Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation)
Alfredo Dubra, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology (at Stanford University)
Janis T. Eells, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Neurology, and Professor of Biomedical Sciences (at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Dana Merriman, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and Professor of Biology, Physiology and Neuroscience (at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
William J. O'Brien, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Hao Zhang, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (at Northwestern University)
Emeritus Professor
