Month: December 2022

Yin Li receives 2022 Expanding Our Vision grant

The McPherson Eye Research Institute is proud to announce the 2022 Expanding Our Vision recipient. Professor Yin Li, Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, will receive $10,000 from the McPherson ERI towards his research. Towards Automated Surgical Skill Assessment for Cataract Surgical Training Abstract: Over 25 million people in the US are affected by cataracts—a …

Lillian Li receives 2022 Hilldale Undergraduate Award in vision research.

The McPherson Eye Research Institute is proud to announce the McPherson ERI-funded 2022 Hilldale Undergraduate Award recipient in vision research. Congratulations to Lillian Li and her advisor, Ari Rosenberg (Dept. of Neuroscience), on Lillian Li’s proposal: Biologically Inspired Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Visual Processing Abstract: Our eyes sense two-dimensional (2D) projections of the environment, …

Skala to Develop a New Imaging Approach to Retinal Diseases

Skala to Develop New Imaging Approach for Retinal Diseases Melissa Skala, PhD, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has landed a grant from the National Eye Institute to develop a new imaging method for quantifying melanin levels in human eyes. The approach could allow for earlier disease detection and monitoring, as …