Laboratory of
Ocular Biomechanics
Graduate student, undergraduate student and Research assistant positions available (Details)
February/2024: Best wishes to Po-Yi!
Po-Yi was a PhD student then a post-doc in our lab
He has moved to Boston to be a post-doc at Harvard Medical School. [Po-Yi's Publications]
December/2023: New paper accepted!
"Fibrous finite element modeling of the optic nerve head region" by Acta Biomaterialia [Link to Biorxiv]
The work was led by Mohammad Refatul Islam
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.