Minnesota Eye Consultants' research team, partners with medical device and pharmaceutical industry leaders, as well as smaller companies with innovative technologies, to conduct industry-sponsored pre-clinical and clinical trials. They also partner with non-profit research centers to participate in nationally recognized and federally funded research endeavors. The following is a list of their current research partnerships:

• 3M
• Advanced Vision Science/Santen
• Alcon
• Allergan
• Advanced Medical Optics
• Asclepion-Meditec
• Bausch & Lomb
• CIBA Vision Ophthalmics
• Cornea Research Foundation of America
• Jaeb Center for Health Research
• Johns Hopkins
• Johnson & Johnson
• LASIK Institute
• Alimera Sciences
• iScience Interventional
• AcuFocus

• Laser Vision Centers, Inc.
• Marco Technologies
• Maverick Technologies
• Morcher
• OPHTEC USA, Inc.
• Pharmacia Corporation/Pfizer
• Refractec
• STAAR Surgical Company
• Storz Ophthalmics
• Sunrise Technologies
• SURGIDEV
• VISX
• Glaucos Corporation
• CooperVision
• Otsuka Maryland Research Institute