Month: September 2016

Video features Bas Rokers’ work: “UW Madison research says some brains blind to moving objects”

Gamm team and collaborators awarded NEI grant to reverse blindness

A UW–Madison research team of half a dozen McPherson ERI colleagues, along with collaborators at Johns Hopkins University, has been selected as one of six groups to receive funding from the National Eye Institute with the goal of restoring vision by regenerating photoreceptor cells.  Read more…. 

Researchers awarded grant to improve treatment of AMD

A multidisciplinary group of researchers is building a model of the retina that will help doctors better diagnose and develop treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Kristyn Masters and Pam Kreeger, both associate professors of biomedical engineering, in conjunction with Aparna Lakkaraju, an assistant professor with the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences…Read more  

Fall 2016 Seminar Series

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 – WIMR conference room 7001A MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2015 – 2016   Tuesday, October 11, 2016 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Color Perception   Tuesday, November 8, 2016 – WIMR conference room 7001A Tissue Engineering Methodology   Tuesday, December 13, 2016 – Genetics/Biotechnology room 1360 Options for Children with Congenital …