Research

State-of-the-Art Facilities for Advanced Capabilities

Portland, OR

With more than 20,000 ft2 of laboratory and administration space, our Portland home is a state-of-the-art tissue processing and medical research facility located in the center of Portland’s most esteemed institutes of higher learning and healthcare ecosystem.

VisionGift’s ‘Vision Research Laboratory’

With our dedicated laboratory space, VG boasts contemporary clinical and engineering design features common to modern operating rooms. We have more than 330 square ft of ISO Certified processing rooms – an ISO Class 5 clean room is equipped with a dual view operating microscope and serves as our center for teaching our innovations in corneal therapies, and for surgeons to refine their techniques and explore new potential breakthroughs in patient care and outcomes. High definition video capture is used for both teaching and research. With state-of-the-art microscopic technology, and tried-and-true evaluation techniques, VisionGift prides ourselves on the kind of evaluation consistency and tissue quality patients and surgeons require.

Konan Specular Microscopes

Optovue Fourier Domain OCT

Inverted Fluorescent Light Microscope

Omni-Prep Multi Sample Homoginizer

Programmable Water Bath

Haag-Streit BX Slit Lamp

Zeiss Dissection Microscope

Microtome for Ultra-Thin Tissue Sectioning

CO2 Incubator

Refrigerated Centrifuge

Boston, MA

Located in the historic Tower Point Building in the beautiful and revitalized Seaport District.   This new development from VisionGift is the outgrowth of important relationships with some of the most prominent corneal surgeons and vision researchers in the country.  The facility will focus on providing our world-renowned DSAEK and DMEK grafts to our surgeons on the East Coast, and as a hub for critical research initiatives with partners like Harvard/Mass Eye, Johns Hopkins, and other prominent East Coast institutions.

Equipped with the finest in diagnostic tools and microscopy, our Laboratory delivers the same level of customer care and tissue quality you’ve come to expect from the VisionGift name.