Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Applications are now available for the 2019 McPherson ERI vision research trainee grants, now renamed the Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Trainee Grants. Kenzi Valentyn was a courageous and upbeat young woman whose long battle against Kearns-Sayre syndrome, a degenerative disease with symptoms including vision loss, ended with her passing at age 30 in March 2017. …
For the fourth year, the McPherson Eye Research Institute has allocated funds to support one Visiting Scholar invited to the UW–Madison campus by a McPherson ERI member. (McPherson ERI members from other institutions can also be invited to UW–Madison as Visiting Scholars.) Funds will be available to support the costs of travel and lodging (up to $2000). Past visiting scholars …
With funding from Cycle for Sight as well as from the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Fund, two David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards will be awarded to support graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers in spring 2019. The application process is open to postdoctoral researchers and graduate students currently in training in any McPherson ERI member research lab/program. Two $1,000 travel …