The Ocular Microbiome Project (OMP) was launched by the National Eye Institute in July 2023. The project supports five centers distributed across multiple universities that are collecting data to investigate the microbial composition on the surface of the human eye.
The OMP is sponsored in part by NIH grant U24-EY035078:
National Eye Institute / NIH
Program Director for Retinal Cell Biology and Development of Novel Therapies
This research makes use of the SciServer science platform (www.sciserver.org). SciServer is a collaborative research environment for large-scale, data-driven science, sponsored in part by NIH grant U24-EY035078. It is being developed at, and administered by, the Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science at Johns Hopkins University.