UB VISION INFRASTRUCTURE CENTER

描述(由申请者提供)：这份建立愿景基础设施中心的申请是基于布法罗大学新兴的愿景研究实力和日益增长的前景。我们非常适合这个项目，因为我们目前是一个由5名NEI资助的研究人员组成的小而紧密的教职员工，他们有多个相互重叠的感兴趣的科学领域。此外，我们得到了眼科和医学院的承诺，将继续快速发展我们的研究任务。我们的建议是创建先进的研究设施，这些设施将有助于加强现有教职员工的研究和合作，并成为吸引新视野科学家的磁石。目标是在生物光子学和视觉转基因中建立最先进的模块。这两个模块都将扩展目前正在使用的技术，使研究人员能够拓宽当前的科学边界。这些模块利用目前愿景教员的结合专业知识，利用将促进合作研究的协同效应。它还利用了大学其他教员和机构的专业知识。目标是让布法罗大学将视觉研究作为其选定的支持指定为卓越领域的目标之一，这将需要大量注入基础设施支持和招聘新的视觉教员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application to establish a Vision Infrastructure Center is founded on the emerging strength and growing promise of vision research at the University at Buffalo. We are ideally suited for this program because we are currently a small but tightly knit faculty of 5 NEI-funded investigators with multiple overlapping scientific areas of interest. In addition, we have the commitment of the Department of Ophthalmology and the School of Medicine for continued, rapid growth of our research mission. Our proposal is to create advanced research facilities that will serve to enhance the research and collaboration of current faculty plus serve as a magnet for new vision scientists. The objective is to establish state-of-the-art modules in Biophotonics and in Vision Transgenics. Both modules will extend technologies currently in use, enabling researchers to broaden current scientific boundaries. These modules take advantage of the coupled expertise of the present vision faculty, harnessing a synergy that will foster collaborative research. It also utilizes expertise of other faculty and institutions at the University. The goal is to have the University at Buffalo adopt vision research as one of their select targets of support for designation as an area of excellence, which would entail a major infusion of infrastructure support and recruitment of new vision faculty.