About Us
OUR MAXIM
"Vision for life"
OUR VISION
"to be an international leader in the early detection, prevention, and treatment of blinding disease, and in visual robotics"
OUR MISSION
"to address the most challenging and urgent problems in visin science"
Goals
The Centre’s goals are:
- to unravel the cellular basis of visual sensing and processing,
- to reveal the algorithms that underlie the visual control of behaviour and perception, and
- to discover the cellular mechanisms that make the eye and retina stable, and whose breakdown causes blindness.
Through these goals we will achieve the following outcomes:
- Fundamental understanding of visual signalling and information processing.
- Breakthroughs in the detection, prevention, and treatment of visual impairment:
- Detecting glaucoma and multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Understanding, preventing, and treating retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and macular degeneration (AMD)
- Novel strategies for machine vision and robotics.
- Collaborative synergies: bringing together major research teams in visual sciences.
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