Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
8th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture November 12th, 2020; Virtual Guest Speaker: John Gerard Flannery, PhD (Neurobiology Division, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, The School of Optometry, University of California, Berkley; Vice Chair, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, USA; Vice Chair, Fighting Blindness, Ireland) Engineering “gene-independent” therapies for blindness
The Expanding Our Vision (EOV) grant program was started this year to provide awards of up to $10,000 to researchers performing vision-related research in visual communication, visual cognition, visual perception/performance, data visualization, development of novel imaging techniques for the visual system, computer sciences, and/or bioinformatics. Research in these areas is essential for understanding the intricacies …
Fall Trainee Symposium Thursday, October 15th, 2020; Zoom Guest Speakers:
Please join us for the McPherson ERI Fall 2020 Trainee Symposium, to be held online in lieu of our annual in-person poster session. McPherson ERI trainees will give 3-minute “flash talks” on their current research geared towards both McPherson ERI peers and a general audience. Over the summer, the McPherson ERI sponsored several trainees (graduate …
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 – VIA ZOOM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020 – VIA ZOOM Walsh Research Travel Award Recipients, Spring 2019 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020 – VIA ZOOM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2020 – VIA ZOOM *Sponsored by EyeKor, Inc. and Ocular Services on Demand (OSOD), LLC, partnering with industry to accelerate the development of new …
A collaboration among four McPherson ERI member labs has resulted in a proof-of-concept method to correct an inherited form of macular degeneration that causes blindness and is currently untreatable. The research, which focused on Best disease and was led by Divya Sinha, an Assistant Scientist in David Gamm’s lab, and Ben Steyer, an MD-PhD student …