Explore works of art by scientists, artists, and curators working at the intersections of visual art, visual processing, and vision science in the Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery. Their images offer extraordinary views of …
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Congratulations to Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award Winner Curtis Brandt!
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 …
3rd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture (2025)
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 …
Stem cell pioneer James Thomson to retire
Congratulations to Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award Winner Xin Huang!
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 …
Congratulations to Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award Winner Donna Neumann!
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 …
Vision Research Update 2025
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2025 Vision Research Update! The talk, which was given by Dr. David Gamm, covered the Institute’s recent work on inherited retinal disease and age-related macular degeneration …
Groundbreaking Stem Cell Clinical Trial for Retinal Disease Treats Its First Patient
Using a stem cell-derived therapeutic developed over more than a decade in Dr. David Gamm’s lab at UW-Madison, BlueRock Therapeutics has treated the first patient in a new Phase 1/2a clinical trial aimed at a group of …
Dr. Karen Schloss featured on Wisconsin Public Radio
MERI member Karen Schloss (UW Department of Psychology and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery), recently sat down with WPR’s The Larry Meiller Show to discuss her research on how colors influence meaning, behavior, and emotion. Listen …
Researchers find the tipping point at which compensatory measures in a diseased retinal circuit shift from beneficial to detrimental
A recent study by the Hoon lab published in Current Biology has uncovered new modes of retinal circuit compensation and adaptation in response to impairments seen in congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB). CSNB is a retinal disease …