Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the Fall 2022 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant recipients. These one-year grants of $7500 each are funded by the Institute’s annual Cycle for Sight event, which raises money to support research in McPherson ERI member labs and programs. David Barnett, MD, mentor Michelle Ciucci, PhD / Freya Mowat, BVSc, PhD, …
The McPherson ERI was pleased to have its first back in-person Fall Vision Science Poster Session on Thursday, October 20, 2022. Best Student Presentation Award, Vision Science Zikang (John) Zhu, graduate student (Neuroscience; Ari Rosenberg, PhD, mentor). “Differential Clustering of Visual, Choice-, and Saccade-Related Activity in Macaque V3A and CIP” Prize: Zeiss Terra ED 42 Binoculars, generously donated …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the Fall 2022 Walsh Research Travel Award recipients. These awards are generously supported by the David G. Walsh endowment. Recipients will receive up to $1000 in registration and travel fees to attend and present vision-related research at a professional conference or symposium. Jacob Khoussine, graduate student (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Mrinalini Hoon, …
Posted on December 30, 2022 McPherson ERI’s 14th Annual Vision Science Lecture and Fall Poster Session Draws a Crowd Dan-Erik Nilsson, PhD, spoke on The Evolution of Eyes and Vision.
Winners of the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Annual Cool Science Image Contest used various techniques to create artistic scientific images – some of the most diverse in the contest’s history! Each work is currently displayed and open to the public at the 9th floor of the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR) building. Read …
The increased interest and success in using gene-editing techniques to treat ocular diseases has inspired collaboration between scientists of UW–Madison’s McPherson ERI, Morgridge Institute for Research, and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Read the full article here
A new study reveals how photoreceptors grown from stem cells might extend biological wires, known as axons, to contact existing neurons. Read full article here
Innovation in scientific instrumentation is an important aspect of research at UW–Madison, in part due to efforts by MERI associate director Kevin Eliceiri. A professor of medical physics and biomedical engineering, Eliceiri was named an Open Hardware Trailblazer Fellow by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). Read the full article here
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health have successfully shown that a retinal cell type derived from human pluripotent stem cells is capable of the complex process of detecting light and converting that signal to electrical waves. The results of this research could unlock new therapeutic avenues for treating vision …
Cycle for Sight 2022 Raises Over $50,000 for Vision Research The McPherson ERI’s annual research fundraiser was once again driven by teams that exercised outdoors – walking, running, and cycling for sight around the state and the country. Thank you to all who participated, donated, and sponsored the event! Check out the pictures!