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Year: 2025

Sign up or donate to Cycle for Sight 2025!

Posted on February 19, 2025

Cycle for Sight 2025 kicks off at the Princeton Club West on Saturday, March 15th, with teams continuing to exercise in the community through April. You can register or donate to Cycle for Sight 2025 …

Posted in Center NewsTagged Cycle for Sight, Fundraiser

Congratulations to Prof. Krishanu Saha!

Posted on February 19, 2025

Congratulations to MERI PI and Retina Research Foundation Murphy Chair Prof. Krishanu Saha (WID, CoE, SMPH), who was recently named by STAT News as one of the 10 scientists who are moving CRISPR gene editing …

Posted in Members NewsTagged CRISPR, Gene Editing, Kris Saha, Krishanu Saha

McPherson ERI Fall 2024 Insights is out!

Posted on February 19, 2025

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 …

Posted in Center NewsTagged Insights, Publications

New research in Nature Communications from the lab of MERI PI Raunak Sinha!

Posted on February 19, 2025

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 …

Posted in Research NewsTagged Light Adaptation, Publications, Publishing, Raunak Sinha

Gamm Lab Discoveries Culminate in FDA Approval of a Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Inherited Photoreceptor Diseases

Posted on February 19, 2025

BlueRock Therapeutics LP, a clinical stage cell therapy company and subsidiary of Bayer AG, today announced the clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for OpCT-001, …

Posted in Research NewsTagged Cell Therapy, Clinical Trial, Gamm Lab, Inherited Photoreceptor Diseases

Now on display in the Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery: Constructs of Color Hard and Soft

Posted on January 13, 2025

As a fundamental aspect of human experience, color influences our perceptions, emotions, and interactions with the world around us. This exhibition – comprised of stained glass works by Randy Glysch and of fiber, needlework, and …

Posted in Center NewsTagged Art Gallery, Gallery, Mandelbaum and Albert Family Vision Gallery, Vision Gallery

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