The faculty members of the Eye Department (Dr. Mohammad Ali Javadi, Head of the Research Institute of Eye and Vision Sciences and Dr. Hamid Ahmadieh, Research Assistant of the Research Institute of Eye and Vision Sciences) were included in the list of 2% of the best scientists in the world.

The first retinal ischemia-reperfusion animal model in the country was created at the eye tissue engineering research center of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.