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, Montréal
Sylvain Chemtob, MD, FRCPC, FAAP, 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, Montréal
Jacqueline Orquin, MD, FRCSC
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR – Strategic Initiatives
Assistant Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology, Université de Montréal, Montréal
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, Montréal
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
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
AXIS
Adriana Di Polo, PhD
DIRECTOR of the Biology and Pathology of Vision 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, Montréal
Arjun Krishnaswamy, PhD
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR of the Biology and Pathology of Vision Axis
Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal
Jean-François Bouchard, B.Pharm., PhD
DIRECTOR of the Vision Neurosciences Axis
Director of the École d’optométrie- Université de Montréal; tenured research professor at the École d’Optométrie, Université de Montréal, Montréal
Stuart Trenholm, PhD
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR of the Vision Neurosciences Axis
Assistant Professor and researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute’s Department of Neurological and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal
May Griffith, PhD
DIRECTOR of the Emerging Technologies Axis
Tenured professor at Université de Montreal’s Department of Ophthalmology of the Faculty of Medicine; Researcher at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montréal
Élodie Boisselier, PhD
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR of the C Emerging Technologies Axis
Researcher at the CHU de Quebec Research Center and Associate Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery of Laval University, Québec
Aaron Johnson, PhD
DIRECTOR of the Rehabilitation and Social Issues of Visual Disorders Axis
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal
Walter Wittich, PhD, FAAO, CVTL
ASSOICIATE DIRECTOR of the Rehabilitation and Social Issues of Visual Disorders
Associate Professor at the École d’optométrie – Université de Montréal; Resident Researcher at the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en réadaptation du Montréal métropolitain (CRIR)- Centre de réadaptation MAB-Mackay du CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal; Resident Researcher at the CRIR-Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille (INLB) du CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre; Adjunct Professor at the École de physiothérapie et d’ergothérapie – McGill University; Adjunct Professor at the Department of psychology – Concordia University