The UW-Madison Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the McPherson Eye Research Institute at UW-Madison are pleased to announce the recruitment of Jianhai Du, PhD. Dr. Du joined the Department of Ophthalmology and …
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New molecular therapy restores vision in model of inherited childhood blindness — and may open the door to treatment for dozens of rare diseases
A University of Wisconsin–Madison team led by MERI RRF Daniel M. Albert Chair, Prof. Bikash Pattnaik, has developed a molecular therapy that restores vision in a mouse model of Leber congenital amaurosis type 16 (LCA16), …
Prof. Bikash Pattnaik’s research published in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
Congratulations to MERI RRF Daniel M. Albert Chair, Prof. Bikash Pattnaik, for his recent publication in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy! Prof. Pattnaik’s paper, titled “Engineered tRNA reduces vision loss in a mouse model of …
McPherson ERI Spring 2026 InSights is out!
The latest InSights newsletter features articles on Dr. Donna Neumann’s work on the HSV-1 virus’s latency and activation cycle and Dr. Celia Bisbach’s work on projects targeting a variety of blinding diseases, as well as …
Kevin Eliceiri receives inaugural Spencer Shorte Legacy Award
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is proud to announce that our Associate Director Kevin Eliceiri has been named the inaugural recipient of the Spencer Shorte Legacy Award, presented by the Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities …
Celia Bisbach, PhD, Awarded Grant From BrightFocus Foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research Program
BrightFocus Foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research program has awarded a two-year, $200,000 postdoctoral fellowship grant to Celia Bisbach, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for her innovative research in vision health. A …
Cycle for Sight 2026 Continues Through April
This year’s event kicked off on Saturday, March 14th. 2026 is our fifteenth year of Cycle for Sight! Our kickoff event was on Saturday, March 14th, at the Princeton Club West, where teams and individuals cycled in …
MERI-at-a-Glance (2026)
MERI-at-a-Glance 2026 Friday, February 13th, 2026; DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building Guest Speakers Kevin Eliceiri (Medical Physics; Biomedical Engineering; CQCI) “The ImageJ ecosystem: An open platform for biomedical image analysis” David Herzfeld (Neuroscience) “The cerebellar circuit …
MERI Member Donna Neumann Awarded NIH R01 to Advance HSV-1 Vision Research
MERI member Prof. Donna Neumann (DOVS) has been awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to support her project, “A chromatin loop controls the …
McPherson Eye Research Institute Member Randy Bartels Featured in New Article on Quantum Imaging
We are pleased to share a newly published online article highlighting the work of McPherson Eye Research Institute member Randy Bartels. The article explores recent advances in quantum imaging and how this emerging approach could open a powerful …