Board of Directors members
Michel Cayouette, PhD
Director of the Network
Tenured research professor at the IRCM and tenured professor at the Université de Montreal’s Department of Medicine; Director of the cellular neurobiology unit at the IRCM, Montreal
Sylvain Chemtob, MD, PhD
Assistant director – Strategic Initiatives
Tenured professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, and Pharmacology of Université de Montréal; Professor affiliated to the Department of Pharmacology of McGill University; Paediatrician and researcher at the CHU de Sainte-Justine, Montreal; Researcher at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, Montreal
Frédéric Charron, PhD
Assistant director – Training for the next generation scientists
Director of Molecular Biology of Neural Development at the IRCM, Associate-Professor Department of Medicine, University of Montreal, Associate-Professor- Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine; McGill University, Montréal
May Griffith, PhD
Director of the Cornea and Anterior Segment Axis
Tenured professor at Université de Montreal’s Department of Ophthalmology of the Faculty of Medicine; Researcher at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal
Adriana Di Polo, PhD
Director of the Retina and Posterior Segment Axis
Tenured professor at the Department of neuroscience in the Faculty od Medicine, Université de Montreal; Accredited professor at the École d’Optométrie, Université de Montréal; Researcher at the Centre de recherche du complexe hospitalier, Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Tour Viger, Montreal
Jean-François Bouchard, B.Pharm., PhD
Tenured research professor at the École d’Optométrie, Université de Montréal, Montreal
Walter Wittich, PhD, F.A.A.O., C.L.V.T.
Director of Visual Impairment and Rehabilitation Axis
Assistant professor and researcher at the École d’Optométrie, Université de Montréal; Resident Researcher, CRIR/Centre de réadaptation MAB-Mackay du CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Resident Researcher, CRIR/Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille du CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre
Isabelle Brunette, MD, FRCSC
Assistant director – Clinical and Translationnal Research
Tenured Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology of the Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal; Ophthalmologist, cornea specialist and researcher at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal
Jacqueline Orquin, MD, FRCSC
Assistant director – Strategic Initiatives
Assistant Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology, Université de Montréal, Montreal
Przemyslaw (Mike) Sapieha, PhD
Assistant Director – Technology Transfer and Valorization
Associate Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology of the Centre de recherche de l’Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montréal
Stéphanie Proulx, PhD
Assistant Director of the Cornea and Anterior Segment Axis
Assistant professor at the Department of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval; Researcher at LOEX, Quebec
Vincent Pernet, PhD
Assistant Director of the Retina and Posterior Segment Axis
Assistant Professor and regular researcher in the Department of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec
Stuart Trenholm, PhD
Assistant Director of the Brain and Perception Axis
Assistant Professor and researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute’s Department of Neurological and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal
Aaron Johnson, PhD
Assistant Director of Visual Impairment and Rehabilitation Axis
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal