The Electrical Stimulation Strategy team is working on developing a safe way to stimulate the remaining cells in the retina. Electrical impulses can be then passed from the eye, along the optic nerve to the vision processing parts of the brain.

 

Professor Nigel Lovell, University of New South Wales
Program Leader

 

 
Professor Peter Blamey, Bionics Institute
Project Leader - Psychophysics

 

 
Professor Anthony Burkitt, Bionic Vision Australia and the University of Melbourne
Project Leader - Stimulation Strategy for the High-Acuity device

 

 
Associate Professor Nick Barnes, NICTA
Project Leader - Vision Processing 

 

 
Dr Socrates Dokos, University of New South Wales
Project Leader - Stimulation Strategy for the Wide-View device