Dr. Daniel Albert, Founding Director of the McPherson ERI, received the prestigious Laureate Recognition Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), the highest honor given by the Academy. The award to Dr. Albert was …
Year: 2013
5th Annual Vision Science & Visual Art Poster and Gallery Session (2013)
5th Annual Vision Science & Visual Art Poster and Gallery Session September 26th, 2013; Health Science Learning Center room 1325 Guest Speaker: Thomas Cronin (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland-Baltimore County) Incredible Eyes: The …
Bikash Pattnaik Funded for Pediatric Blindness Research
Dr. Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, McPherson ERI member and past holder of the RRF Rebecca Meyer Brown Professorship, has received a $1 million-plus gift for the study of novel therapy approaches for Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA). …
Dietary Supplements: Do They Help with AMD?
Drs. Barbara Blodi, Ronald Danis, and Suresh Chandra are among the authors of the long-awaited AREDS2 study, which examined the effect of various dietary supplements (including omega-3 fatty acids, lutein and zeaxanthin) in subjects with …
1st Annual MERI Endowed Lecture (2013)
1st Annual MERI Endowed Lecture April 22, 2013; Ebling Symposium Center Room 1220 Guest Speaker: Jean Bennett, MD, PhD; Professor of the Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of …
Finding New Treatments for AMD
Dr. Nader Sheibani and colleagues at UW-Madison (including co-investigators Dr. Christine Sorenson and Dr. Bikash Pattnaik, Dr. Ronald Danis, and Dr. Daniel Albert), Northwestern University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center were recently awarded …