The Boston Retinal Implant Project is affiliated with multiple academic, clinical and research institutions throughout the nation. The institutions listed below are our main affiliations.
Veterans Health Administration
The Office of Research and Development aspires to lead the Veterans Health Administration in providing unequaled health care value to veterans. That endeavor is made ever greater (and challenged by) the changing dynamics of evolving healthcare and medical technology.
The Office of Research and Development is like a major "wheel" of research and the four Services are its "spokes." Each Service oversees a number of world renowned research centers nationwide.
- Cooperative Studies Program
- Health Services Research and Development Service
- Medical Research Service
- Rehabilitation Research and Development
Each of these four services is headed by a director who is supervised by the Chief Research and Development Officer (CRDO), who in turn reports to the Office of the Under Secretary for Health.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) is a specialty hospital providing outstanding patient care for disorders of the eye, ear, nose, throat, head and neck. MEEI is also an international leader in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology research and a teaching partner of Harvard Medical School. Founded over 177 years ago in Boston, the Infirmary is a global leader and resource for patients and clinicians alike.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) is MIT’s oldest and largest interdisciplinary research laboratory. Founded in 1946, RLE grew out of the wartime Radiation Laboratory’s pioneering study of electronics.
Today, RLE is home to a wide range of sponsored research activities centered in four broad areas: electronics, optics, and photonics; communications and signal processing; atomic, molecular, and optical physics; and "living systems," particularly language, speech, hearing, and haptics. Research at RLE is driven solely by the interests of its investigators, encouraging overlap and flexible collaboration among subject areas. Activities in RLE are both basic and applied, occupying the rich area spanning fundamental research and the development of contemporary technology.
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is one of the world's preeminent institutions in medical education and research. The breadth and depth of its scientific and clinical disciplines are unsurpassed. The School has nearly 8,000 faculty and 17 affiliated facilities. At the core of the Medical School are its educational and research programs.
Engineers work in the clean room at the Cornell Nano Scale Science and Technology Facility. Photo taken by University Photography, Cornell University.
Cornell Nanofabrication Laboratory
The Cornell Nanofabrication Laboratory (CNF) is a full-service facility with the capability to produce structures and devices with minimum feature sizes ranging from several microns down to about 10 nanometers. It houses a large variety of facilities in materials science, chemistry, physics, and biology. The staff has vast experience with unusual, as well as traditional, applications for nanofabrication technology. When CNF operations began in 1977, activities were dominated by electronics and optics. Today, two of the fastest growing areas are biological applications and micro-mechanics. Equally exciting is the emerging synergy between these areas, so that some researchers are fabricating mechanical devices for biological applications, which have integral electronic or optical components. There is hardly a technical area today which is not impacted by the capabilities of nanofabrication.
University of Louisville
http://www.louisville.edu/medschool/
University of Alabama
EIC Laboratories, Inc.
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