World Artifical Vision Centers. Click image to enlarge!

There are many other groups around the world that are also conducting research in the area of visual prosthetics. To explore these other groups, please visit the links associated with their work.

The Dobelle Group

http://www.dobelle.com/

W. H. Dobelle, Ph.D.

The Epi-Ret Project

http://www.nero.uni-bonn.de/projekte/ri/ri -index-en.htm

University of Bonn, Germany; R. Eckmiller, Ph.D.

Hybrid Retinal Implant

http://www.cmplx.cse.nagoya-u.ac.jp/research/retina/

Nagoya University, Japan; Tohru Yagi, Ph.D.

Intraocular Retinal Prosthesis Group

http://www.irp.jhu.edu/index.htm

The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital

In conjunction with the Doheny Retina Institute at the University of Southern California, Mark S. Humayun, M.D., Ph.D. (http://visionscience.usc.edu/)

Retina implant research

http://www.medizin.uni-koeln.de/kliniken/augenklinik/epi-ret3e.htm

University Eye Hospital Cologne, Department of Vitreoretinal Surgery; Peter Walter, M.D.

Retinal Implant

http://www.eye-chip.com/

University Eye Hospital Tübingen - Prof. Dr. E. Zrenner (Director)
University Eye Hospital Regensburg - Prof. Dr. V.-P. Gabel (Director)
Natural and Medical Sciences Institute, Reutlingen - Dr. H. Hämmerle
Institute for Microelectronics, Stuttgart - Prof. Dr. B. Höfflinger (Director)
Institute for Physical Electronics, Stuttgart - Dr. M. Schubert

See also http://www.retina-implant.de/

Retinal Prosthesis Project

http://www.icat.ncsu.edu/projects/retina/

North Carolina State University; Prof. Wentai Liu, Ph.D.

Optobionics Corporation

http://www.optobionics.com/

Dr. Alan Chow

Blinded Veterans Association

http://www.bva.org/

Foundation Fighting Blindness

http://www.blindness.org/

Lighthouse International

http://www.lighthouse.org/

The Low Vision Gateway

http://www.lowvision.org/

Macular Degeneration Foundation

http://www.eyesight.org/

Massachusetts Association for the Blind

http://www.mablind.org/

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

http://www.meei.harvard.edu/shared/ophtho/low.html

Low Vision and Visual Rehabilitation

National Eye Institute

http://www.nei.nih.gov/nehep/lowvis.htm

Low Vision Education Program