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 …
Month: December 2022
Student Presentation Awards – Fall Vision Science Poster Session
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). …
Fall 2022 Walsh Research Travel Award recipients
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 …
McPherson ERI’s 14th Annual Vision Science Lecture and Fall Poster Session Draws a Crowd
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.
The 2022 Winners: Cool Science Contest
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 …
A Research Partnership Brings Gene Editing Promise to Eye Disease
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 …
UW Eye Research Uncovers How Stem Cell Photoreceptors Reach Their Targets
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
Eliceiri Named Open Hardware Trailblazer Fellow
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 …
UW Study Finds Photoreceptor Cells from Retinal Organoids Can Replicate Key Function of Vision
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 …
Cycle for Sight 2022 Raises Over $50,000 for Vision Research
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 …