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  2. Year: 2016

Year: 2016

Macular degeneration prevention advances with Lakkaraju team’s new paper

Posted on July 25, 2016

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published a new paper by Li Xuan Tan, Kimberly Toops, and Aparna Lakkaraju which pinpoints how immune abnormalities in the retinal pigment epithelium can cause macular …

Posted in Archive, Research News, Research-2016

Lakkaraju lab identifies promising drugs to prevent vision loss in macular degeneration

Posted on July 18, 2016
Posted in Archive, Member-2016, Members News

Rock Mackie is co-founder of two of the finalists for 2016 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest

Posted on June 12, 2016
Posted in Archive, Member-2016, Members News

Dietram Scheufele on effective communication about UW issues

Posted on May 27, 2016
Posted in Archive, Member-2016, Members News

Kristyn Masters and William Murphy honored with Romnes Faculty Fellowships

Posted on May 5, 2016
Posted in Archive, Member-2016, Members News

Jack Ma wins Kellett Mid-Career Award

Posted on May 3, 2016
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Capacity Crowd Hears Pawan Sinha Give 2016 McPherson Endowed Lecture

Posted on May 1, 2016

The McPherson Eye Research Institute celebrated its 10th Anniversary with the 4th Annual Endowed Lecture on Thursday, April 28, 2016. Pawan Sinha, PhD, Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences …

Posted in Archive, Member-2016, Members News, Research-2016

4th Annual Endowed Lecture (2016)

Posted on April 28, 2016

4th Annual Endowed Lecture – Thursday, April 28, 2016 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building, Room 1211 Pawan Siha, PhD Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Learning to See Late …

Posted in 2016, Alice McPherson Lecture, Archive, Seminars

1st Annual Biopharmaceutical Development Workshop: Focus on Ocular Therapeutics

Posted on March 29, 2016

Waisman Biomanufacturing and McPherson Eye Research Institute held this day long workshop on March 17, 2016 at The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, WI (8:00am – 6:30pm). The development of cell therapies for ocular diseases …

Posted in Archive, Research News, Research-2016

MERI-at-a-Glance Highlights the Range of McPherson ERI Research Interests

Posted on February 21, 2016

MERI-at-a-Glance successfully took place on February 19th at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery (WID), where eight short research talks were presented. Vision-related findings and interests were shared from cataracts and glaucoma, viral gene delivery to …

Posted in 2016, Archive, Research-2016, Seminars
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