RALPH AND SOPHIE HEINTZ LABORATORY RESEARCH

CLINICAL RESEARCH

IRA WONG’S RESEARCH

CLINICAL RESEARCH IN OCULAR INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND
CORNEAL AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY

MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR LABORATORY

KIMURA OCULAR IMMUNOLOGY LABORATORY

SJÖGREN’S SYNDROME RESEARCH

CLINICAL RESEARCH IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Research

The research interests of the Foundation focus on the prevention, pathogenesis and treatment of infectious and inflammatory eye disease.

Specific research areas:

• Establishment of Latent Infection with Herpes Simplex Virus

• The AIRE Gene and Inflammatory Eye Disease  

• Molecular Diagnostics

• Predicting and Improving Clinical Outcomes in Corneal Ulcer Patients

• New Treatments for Patients with Ocular Inflammation

• SNOMED

• Epidemiology of Uveitis

• Clinical Trials

• Ocular Infectious Disease

• Corneal and Refractive Surgery

• Molecular Mechanisms of Squamous Metaplasia in Dry Eye

• Novel Drug Therapies to Alleviate Mucus Hypersecretion in
  Cystic Fibrosis

• Smoke-Induced Lung Cancer:  Role of EGFR, MUC1 and Catenins

• Autoimmune Mechanisms in a New Spontaneous Model of
  Sjögren’s syndrome 

• Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms in Inflammatory Angiogenesis

• The Sjögren’s Syndrome Clinic at UCSF, and the Sjögren’s International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA)

• Clinical Research Studies in Southeast Asia

  • Corneal Ulceration in Southeast Asia:  The Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Corneal Ulcers. The WHO/SEAR Corneal Ulcer Study Group
  • Prevention of Corneal Ulceration in Southeast Asia: Studies in Bhutan, Myanmar, and South India. 
  • Future Studies Defining the Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment of Corneal Ulcers in South East Asia