Month: May 2023

McPherson ERI’s Spring 2023 InSights is out!

Our Spring 2023 newsletter reviews the extraordinary career of Dr. Alice McPherson; announces the new Trout AMD Project; and highlights a new $30 million NIH grant to MERI members to advance gene editing therapies for two devastating eye diseases.

11th Annual Alice McPherson Lecture (2023)

11th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture Thursday, May 25th; Health Science Learning Center Guest Speaker: Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA (Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology (Pathology), Harvard Medical School; Associate Chief of Basic & Translational Science, Mass. Eye and Ear; Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research, Department of Ophthalmology) Ocular Angiogenesis: Biology, Pathology, …

Dr Freya Mowat receives the Dr. Joe G. Hollyfield New Investigator Award for Macular Degeneration Research

The highly prestigious award is presented annually by the BrightFocus Foundation to the top-rated New Investigator Grant recipient in recognition of exceptionally promising and forward-thinking ideas in the field of age-related macular degeneration.  Dr. Mowat holds a joint faculty position as an Assistant Professor in both the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and the …