Month: January 2023

Join us to view scenes from all seasons, captured outdoors in settings local and far away, to brighten our days and engage our imaginations. Envisioning the Environment – Scenes from Plein Air Artists, opens on Thursday, January 19, 2023 with works from twelve Wisconsin artists: Marc Anderson, Chuck Bauer, Wendy Crone, Jim Faecke, Andy Fletcher, …

The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce recipients of the first annual McPherson ERI Distinguished Paper Award. Funded by the Cycle for Sight event, this award recognizes the outstanding work of our trainees and the breadth and depth of research conducted by Institute member laboratories. **Prizes will be awarded in a brief ceremony to be held at the upcoming MERI-At-A-Glance event on …

With funding provided by generous gifts from Roger and Lynn Van Vreede and from the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund, the McPherson ERI Leadership Committee is pleased to announce two awards of $50,000 each to advance research in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and one award of $50,000 to advance research in retinitis pigmentosa (RP). …

Lab-grown Retinal Cells Make Successful Connections…. Successful connections between several types of dish-grown retinal cells were established in the lab, according to a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  The paper, a collaboration between the Gamm Lab (co-first-authors Allison Ludwig and Steven Mayerl) and Xinyu Zhao, PhD, is an essential …