Current Recipients
Current Trainees
Trainees from across the University of Toronto receive mentorship and support. These trainees are currently supported by the Vision Science Research Program.
2026 / 2027
| Name | Department | Supervisor | Area of Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birdiee, Suman | PCL | Corson, Timothy | Oral therapeutics, neovascularization, OIR, L-CNV, age-related macular degeneration, proliferative diabetic retinopathy |
| Chatha, Gur Rattan Pal (Gary) | CSB | Erclik, Ted | The development and evolution of the eye |
| Khiabani Javid, Jina | LMP | Sivak, Jeremy | Glaucoma, Regenerative Medicine |
| Kindree, Kyli | CSB | Erclik, Ted | Optic lobe, eye development, retinal progenitor cell development and gene regulation, transcriptional control of retinal progenitor cells and photoreceptor patterning |
| Noworolski, Ryan | PSL | Sugita, Shuzo | Retinal vasculature, Muller Glia, Secretion |
| Praszner, Mercedesz | MOGEN | Lefebvre, Julie | Development of retinal circuit, survival of inhibitory neurons |
| Rizza, Stephanie | IMS | Jin, Yaping | Vision epidemiology, age-related macular |
| Rutherford, Xavier | LMP | Singh, Karun | Neural circuits & Retina |
| Sampat, Hema | LMP | Bremner, Rod | Leveraging Retinoblastoma to Dissect Cancer Susceptibility |
| Tsaparis, Georgina | IMS | Dimaras, Helen | Retinoblastoma Research |
| Zahedi Amiri, Ali | IMS | Ballios, Brian | Retinal regeneration; CRB1 retinopathy; retinal organoids; iPSC modeling; retinal patch engineering; biosensors; ER stress; oxidative stress |
| Ashworth, Kristen | IMS | Ballios, Brian | Retina, Organoid, Stem Cell, Photoreceptor, USH2A, Usher Syndrome, Inherited Retinal Disease, Disease Modelling, Neurodegeneration |
| Chhipa, Mohammed Ayan | PCL | Corson, Tim | Identifying the molecular signatures underlying our novel anti-angiogenic compound for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) |
| Eiras, Sofia | MOGEN | Lefebvre, Julie | Retinal neural circuits and development |
| Frost, Nathaniel | LMP | Sivak, Jeremy | Glaucoma, Lamina Cribrosa, Intraocular Pressure, Optic Nerve Head |
| Khan, Nadia | LMP | Sivak, Jeremy | Retinal ganglion cell degeneration and Glaucoma |
| Kord Ali, Mohammad Sadegh | LMP | Schuurmans, Carol | Direct Neuronal Reprogramming of Retina using AAVs and Neurogenic Transcription Factors |
| Lavoie, Camille | LMP | Wallace, Valerie | Mitochondria trafficking |
| Lee, Jaeeun | LMP | Wallace, Valerie | Photoreceptor axon guidance |
| Little, Ness | LMP | Ong Tone, Stephan | Cornea |
| Maanik, Mehta | IMS | Vincent, Ajoy | Hereditary Macular Dystrophy, Mouse Modeling, Retinal Lipid Metabolism |
| Minamisono, Ren | LMP | Schuurmans, Carol | Photoreceptor development; epistatic relationship of signalling and metabolic pathways |
| Moffat, Alexandra | LMP | Schuurmans, Carol | Proneural transcription factors in retinal progenitor cells |
| Waul, Lacey | PSL | Monnier, Philippe | Adult central nervous system regeneration, Optic nerve regeneration |