Ramkumar Sabesan, PhD

Undergraduate Education: Bachelors of Technology, Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 2005

Graduate Education: PhD, Optics, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, 2012

Post-Doctoral Education: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 2012-2014 Assistant Research Staff, University of California, Berkeley, 2014-2015

Dr.Sabesan was born and raised in New Delhi, India. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He earned his Ph.D. at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester developing non-invasive optical tools for the study and treatment of corneal pathologies. Following his doctorate, he did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley studying the retinal basis of color perception using advanced high-resolution imaging.

Dr.Sabesan was born and raised in New Delhi, India. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He earned his Ph.D. at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester developing non-invasive optical tools for the study and treatment of corneal pathologies. Following his doctorate, he did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley studying the retinal basis of color perception using advanced high-resolution imaging.  

2015 Kavli fellow nominated by the National Academy of Sciences

2014 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Careers at the Scientific Interface award

2014 Retina Research Foundation travel award

2013 Fight for Sight postdoctoral award

2012 Outstanding dissertation award, Engineering and Applied sciences, University of Rochester

2012 Founders’ award for best invited presentation, Wavefront Congress

2011 Edmund Optics higher education grant finalist

2007 Photonics Technology Access Program grant for research devices sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Dr. Sabesan’s research group studies how the human retina enables the fundamental, yet, intricate aspects of our daily vision - color, motion and so on; and how such visual capacities are disrupted in the face of retinal diseases.

To achieve this, they develop and use novel imaging tools which enable them to see, stimulate, manipulate and record the functional activity of individual retinal cells in living humans.

Ultimately, they aim to use these high-resolution functional assays as biomarkers for early disease diagnosis and end-points for the treatment of blinding retinal disorders.

Vision Science Center Sabesan Lab 

Location: South Lake Union

Mailing Address: University of Washington 750 Republican St. Bldg. E, Room 213 Box 358058 Seattle, WA 98109-8058

Phone:  206-221-4925 Fax:  206-685-9315