Supervisors

Trainees in the Vision Science Research Program (VSRP) may seek supervisors from any of the four graduate divisions at the University of Toronto including the Humanities; the Social Sciences; the Physical Sciences; and the Life Sciences (including the Institute of Medical Sciences) who are members of the Vision Science Research Program (see the membership criteria).

Supervisors must be actively engaged in research, but their specialty need not be vision science. The Vision Science Research Program grants are awarded under the auspices of the Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, however supervisors and trainees from many faculties participate. In addition to the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, recent trainees have been based in the Institute of Medical Sciences, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Cell and Systems Biology, Molecular Genetics, Psychology, and the Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering. Students are frequently engaged in translational research at University of Toronto teaching hospitals across the GTA, including the Krembil Research Institute when the program is administered.