Centre for Eye Research Australia on The Conversation

We conduct eye research with real-life impact. We are unravelling the causes of diseases, preventing blindness through earlier diagnosis and better treatments, and restoring sight.

We are closely affiliated with the University of Melbourne Department of Ophthalmology, and are co-located with the Department at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. This three-way partnership between CERA, the University and the Hospital, is key to the successful translation of our research from the bench to the bedside.

Our ultimate goal is to find solutions for the three major blinding eye diseases that affect Australians – macular degeneration; glaucoma and diabetic eye disease – and to pioneer vision regeneration programs to give hope to people who have lost their sight.

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Phosphenes are an experience of seeing light without light entering your eye. Bionic eye recipients use these to map out a visual scene. Eugene Peretz/Flickr

August 16, 2017

Artificial vision: what people with bionic eyes see

Matthew Petoe, Bionics Institute; Lauren Ayton, Centre for Eye Research Australia, and Mohit Shivdasani, Bionics Institute

The artificial vision provided by a bionic eye is not like natural sight, and takes a lot of getting used to.

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