Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Congratulations to Professor Curtis Brandt, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Brandt’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Mechanisms of Sensory Nerve Loss in HSV-1 Keratitis.’ This project aims to understand how herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) causes nerve damage in the eye, which can lead to …
3rd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture and Hybrid Grand Rounds Friday, September 12th, 2025; HSLC room 1345 and Zoom Guest Speaker: Emily Chew, MD (National Eye Institute) Age-Related Macular Degeneration: An Update of AREDS and AREDS2
Congratulations to Associate Professor Xin Huang, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Huang’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Neural Mechanisms Underlying Perceptual Organization.’ This project investigates how the visual system selectively integrates local visual elements into a coherent object while segregating different objects from one another based on visual …
Congratulations to Associate Professor Donna Neumann, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Neumann’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Inhibiting repair of the Herpes Simplex Virus genome for therapeutic effect.’ This project investigates the role of cellular single-strand DNA damage repair in the repair of nicks and gaps in HSV-1 …