Month: December 2021

Sarah Gong team chosen for 2021 WARF Innovation Award

New Research Grants: Mezu-Ndubuisi & Gamm Labs

We’d like to note two substantial new research grants recently received by McPherson ERI member PIs.  Congratulations to Olachi Mezu-Ndubuisi, MD, OD, who was recently awarded a five-year K08 Career Development Award from NIH/NEI in the amount of $1,221,730.  The award will support her work on retinopathy of prematurity.  Dr. Mezu-Ndubuisi was also named as …

9th Annual McPherson Endowed Lecture (2021)

9th Annual McPherson Endowed Lecture December 9th, 2021; Virtual Guest Speaker: Kapil Bharti, PhD (Senior Investigator, Ocular and Stem Cell Translational Research Section; Adjunct Group Leader, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health) Translating RPE Biology into Disease Treatments using iPS Cells