Our research facilities

Facilities in the Vision and Eye Research Institute (VERI) include state-of-the-art laboratories and clinical areas.

Highlights include:

  • four state-of-the-art consulting rooms to carry out clinical trials and consultations
  • low vision suite featuring a new Vicon mobility analysis system and research facilities to examine hearing in patients with low vision. Our researchers investigate mobility and co-ordination in low vision patients using the most advanced gait lab in the UK
  • diagnostic suite which includes anterior (Zeiss) and posterior (Spectralis) OCTs, Microperimeter (MP1), fundus cameras, Keeler-Konan Pocklington wide-field specular photomicroscope, anterior and posterior HRT, Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, IOL Master and power refractor
  • anterior eye research suite, incorporating a room-sized environmental chamber which allows independent manipulation of temperature, wind speed and humidity, blinking recording device and thermography
  • a myopia laboratory
  • psychophysics suite with Cambridge Research Systems Visage and SR Research EyeLink 1000 eye tracker. 

Find out more about our facilities and clinical trials

For further information, email [email protected]

Our facilities

Ophthalmological equipment owned by the Vision and Eye Research Institute

Ophthalmological equipment

Ophthalmological equipment owned by the Vision and Eye Research Institute

Ophthalmological equipment

Ophthalmological equipment owned by the Vision and Eye Research Institute

Ophthalmological equipment

An optometrist examining a patient's eyes in VERI's clinical consulting room

Clinical consulting room

A patient sitting in the waiting area at the Vision and Eye Research Institute in Cambridge

Waiting area

The Vision and Eye Research Institute reception, with a receptionist on duty and a patient waiting on a sofa

Reception

An optometrist testing a patient's eyes in a clinical room at the Vision and Eye Research Institute in Cambridge

Clinical consulting room

An optometrist testing a patient in the environmental chamber in VERI's anterior eye suite

Environmental chamber

The environmental chamber is located in our anterior eye suite

Two researchers testing a person in VERI's low vision suite in Cambridge

Low vision suite

A blindfolded person walking with a stick part two cameras on tripods in VERI's low vision suite in Cambridge

Low vision suite

A researcher testing someone in VERI's psychophysics suite in Cambridge

Psychophysics suite

An optometrist testing a patient's eyes in a clinical consulting room at the Vision and Eye Research Institute, Cambridge

Clinical consulting room