Research Staff
	Nalini Bora Ph.D Puran Bora, Ph.D. Harry Brown, M.D. Jason Y. Chang, Ph.D. Purushottam Jha, Ph.D. Valeriy V. Lyzogubov, Ph.D. Jimmy Zhou, Ph.D.

Sight is our most precious sense. Because vision plays such an important role in our daily lives, diseases and disorders of the eye and visual system that cause vision loss and blindness have profound effects on a person’s daily life. Without vision, we cannot act independently, recognize family and friends, read, drive a car, and perform a variety of other activities that we consider to be routine daily tasks.

Men and women of all ages, including those in the prime of their lives, are affected by a number of diseases of the eye. Thus, although seldom fatal, eye diseases cause suffering, disability, and loss of productivity for millions of people in the United States and throughout the world.

The Pat and Willard Walker Eye Research Center is dedicated to providing a state-of-the-art eye research program of the highest quality for Arkansas and the nation. Its mission is to prevent vision loss and blindness through the performance of basic and clinical research whose goal is to improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of a variety of important sight-threatening diseases of the eye.

The Walker Eye Research Center (WERC) is housed in over 10,000 square feet of research space located on the third floor of the Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute. Basic vision research in the areas of pathology, neuroscience and cell biology, genetics and molecular biology, pharmacology, and immunology and infectious disease is being pursued by a number of scientists at UAMS who share a common research mission. Funding for this research is provided in part by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, NY.

For more information, contact:

Pat and Willard Walker Eye Research Center
Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4301 West Markham, Slot 523
Little Rock, AR 72205
501-686-8293