Laboratory of
Ocular Biomechanics
Graduate student, undergraduate student and Research assistant positions available (Details)
September/2024: New paper accepted!
"Proposing a methodology for axon-centric analysis of IOP-induced mechanical insult" by IOVS. This work was led by Bingrui Wang.[Link to preprint in biorXiv]
September/2024: First place in Mercy Image Contest
An image from our lab placed first in the Mercy Vision Institute Image Contest among 60+ entries. Two more images from our lab were within the top 12 finalists.[More details about the image, how it was obtained, an interpretation and implications in this paper.]
September/2024: One talk and three posters
Our lab presented a talk (by Sigal) and three posters (by Yuankai Lu, Susannah Waxman and Bingrui Wang) during the i2Eye conference at the Mercy Vision Institute in Pittsburgh 15-17 Sep 2024.
In our daily lives we rarely think of the eye as a biomechanical structure. The eye, however, is a remarkably complex structure with biomechanics involved in many of its functions. For our eyes to be able to track moving objects, for example, requires a delicate balance of the forces exerted by several muscles. Forces are also responsible for deforming the lens and allow focusing. A slight imbalance between the forces and tissue properties may be enough to alter or even preclude vision. These effects may take place quickly or over long periods, even years. Understanding ocular biomechanics is therefore important for preventing and treating vision loss. |
The objective of the Laboratory of Ocular Biomechanics is to study the eye as a biomechanical structure. More specifically our work is aimed at identifying the causes of glaucoma, with the ultimate intention of finding a way to prevent vision loss.