Rate My Professor Bang Bui

Professor Bang Bui is a Professor in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Melbourne, within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. A qualified optometrist, he earned his B.Optom, M.Optom, and PhD in visual neuroscience in 2003 from the University of Melbourne, along with a PGCOT. Upon completing his PhD, Bui was awarded an NHMRC CJ Martin Postdoctoral Fellowship, which supported his research in retinal electrophysiology and imaging at the Devers Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon, USA. He now serves as Director of the Ocular Physiology Laboratory, leading a team that utilizes electrophysiology, imaging, and novel analytical methods to explore risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases such as glaucoma. Previously, he held the position of Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department.

Bui's research focuses on preclinical investigations of vision and retinal vasculature in healthy ageing, mechanisms of age-related susceptibility to neurodegeneration, vascular autoregulation in ageing and glaucoma, the role of blood pressure and intracranial pressure in glaucoma, novel reversible glaucoma models, neuroprotective treatments, vascular and glial deficits in diabetic eye disease, vision loss in retinopathy of prematurity, and wireless electrophysiology platforms for CNS drug testing. His influential publications include "Ganglion cell contributions to the rat full-field electroretinogram" (Bui and Fortune, 2004, The Journal of Physiology); "The role of blood pressure in glaucoma" (He et al., 2011, Clinical and Experimental Optometry); "Non-invasive in vivo hyperspectral imaging of the retina for potential biomarker use in Alzheimer’s disease" (Hadoux et al., 2019, Nature Communications); "The eye as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease" (Lim et al., 2016, Frontiers in Neuroscience); and "The gradient of retinal functional changes during acute intraocular pressure elevation" (Bui et al., 2005, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science). Bui leads the development of a handheld ophthalmodynamometry device for non-invasive intracranial pressure measurement, funded by the Michael Hirshorn Medical Research Commercialisation Fund. He received the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Staff Excellence Award in 2025.