Month: October 2023

McPherson ERI Fall 2023 InSights is out!

The new issue of InSights includes an extended look at the MERI-centric gene editing collaboration that recently received a $29 million NIH grant to launch the CRISPR Vision Program; a look at the work of three MERI members in the Department of Kinesiology; an introduction to some of our new trainee members; and images from the Mandelbaum …

1st Daniel M. Albert Lecture (2023)

Our Inaugural Daniel M. Albert Lecture will take place in HSLC 1325 at 4pm on Thursday, October 26th, 2023! This year’s Albert Lecturer is Prof. David Gamm (RRF Emmett A Humble Distinguished Director, McPherson Eye Research Institute; Sandra Lemke Trout Chair in Eye Research; Professor, Dept of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UW–Madison), who will deliver …

1st Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture (2023)

1st Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture Thursday, Oct 26th, 2023; Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: David Gamm, MD, PhD (Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; RRF Emmett A. Humble Distinguished Director, McPherson Eye Research Institute; Sandra Lemke Trout Chair in Eye Research) Overcoming Challenges to Photoreceptor Cell Replacement