Region. UWS professor in $42m project

A collaborative research team, Bionic Vision Australia, which includes Professor John Morley, from the University of Western Sydney's School of Medicine, has received $42 million from the Australian Research Council (ARC), to develop its bionic eye project. The team’s first goal is to deliver vision, which enables people to distinguish the outlines of large objects, for example buildings, cars or other obstacles. This will provide better mobility and improved quality of life. Professor Morley, chair, of Anatomy and Cell Biology, in the UWS School of Medicine, is a neuroscientist whose research is focused on understanding the ways in which images are processed by the eye and visual regions of the brain.