Haohua Qian, Ph.D.

HaoHua Qian, Ph.D., is currently the head of the Visual Function Core at NEI. Prior to joining NEI in 2010, he was an Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Ophthalmology of Visual Sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Before joining the University of Illinois, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. John Dowling in the department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. In 1993, he was awarded a Grass Fellowship in Neurophysiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. He earned his Ph.D in Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before that, he earned a Master’s degree in Neurobiology at the Shanghai Institute of Physiology, and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology at Nanjing University in China.

We are currently developing and testing novel techniques to evaluate visual function and performance in animal models. We are particularly interested in non-invasive recording methods that could allow us to follow vision of the animal over the time. We are focused on a combination of tools such as electrophysiological recordings, retinal and fundus imagining, and behavior tests that could provide complementary information about integrity and function at different stages of visual signal pathways.