Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Roger and Lynn Van Vreede have been married for 35 years and have also counted 35 years of supporting charitable causes together. Their interests align well—both are lovers of the arts, and passionate gardeners and environmentalists. (As Lynn says: “When we were kids, we’d take our shoes and socks off and run in the water…. …
In the new issue of InSights you can read about Dr. Roomasa Channa’s plan to ensure broader access to diabetic retinopathy care, and learn how Dr. Karen Schloss’s lab helps us make better decisions about using colors in our work. Also included are exciting announcements about an upcoming clinical trial for retinitis pigmentosa, and the …
Thank you to speaker David J. Wilson and all those who attended the 2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture! If you couldn’t make it to the talk, you can watch the entire presentation here.
Our 2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture will take place in HSLC 1345 at 4pm on Thursday, November 14th, 2024! This year’s Albert Lecturer is Dr. David Wilson (Paul H Casey Chair of Ophthalmology, Casey Eye Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, OHSU), who will deliver the following lecture: “Pathological Surgery” Prior to the lecture, there …
Congratulations to Raunak Sinha, the McPherson ERI’s David and Nancy Walsh Family Professor, for his group’s latest publication in Nature Communications! In their article, Saha et al. show that light adaptation, our visual system’s ability to adjust its photoreceptors’ light sensitivity so that we can see over a range of light levels, varies across regions …
16th Annual Vision Science Symposium Friday, October 25, 2024; HSLC Room 1345 Guest Speaker: Sönke Johnsen, PhD (Biology Department, Duke University) How our cognitive and sensory biases affect our study of vision: three tales from the sea
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is excited to announce our newest funding opportunity, the Grant Accelerator Program (GAP)! Supported by the Alice McPherson Endowment Fund for the Visual Sciences, the Van Vreede McPherson ERI Greatest Needs Fund, the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund, and additional donors to the McPherson ERI, the Grant Accelerator Program …
Prof. Akihiro Ikeda Dept. of Medical Genetics, SMPH Timothy William Trout Professor in Eye Research Congratulations to MERI member Prof. Akihiro Ikeda (Dept. of Medical Genetics, SMPH; Timothy William Trout Professor in Eye Research) on receiving an NIH NEI grant for his project “Role of mitochondrial dynamics in rod photoreceptor cells”! Prof. Ikeda’s study will …
2nd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture and Hybrid Grand Rounds Friday, September 13th, 2024; HSLC room 1345 and Zoom Guest Speaker: Goldis Malek, PhD, FARVO, FAOPT (Duke Eye Center, Duke University) Potential Therapeutics for Age-Related Macular Degeneration: The Nuclear Option
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2024 – 1360 BIOTECH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II Special Seminar: Three 15-minute research talks by our Kenzi Valentyn Award Recipients TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2024 – 1360 BIOTECH