Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the winners of our inaugural Grant Accelerator Program (GAP) award competition! 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 …
In a new study published in Stem Cell Reports, the Gamm Lab partnered with researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research to develop lab-grown pig retinal organoids. They found that pig-derived photoreceptors shared many similarities with those made from human retinal organoids. The researchers have now begun to do transplants in pigs using photoreceptors from the …
MERI-at-a-Glance 2025 Friday, February 21st, 2025; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum Guest Speakers: Mohit Gupta (Computer Sciences) “Computer Vision, One Photon at a Time” Roomasa Channa (Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences) “Leveraging AI to decrease disparities in diabetic eye disease ” Pallavi Tiwari (Radiology) “Artificial Intelligence and Computational Imaging: Opportunities for Precision Medicine” Elizabeth Liedhegner (Biomedical Sciences, …
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 now! The McPherson Eye Research Institute’s annual fundraising event supports a range of grants for research on blinding diseases taking place …
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 forward! Among other things, Saha’s current research is leveraging the power of CRISPR to develop new therapies for previously untreatable …
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 – 3571 WIMR II February, 2025 There will be no seminar this month so that we can bring you the MERI-at-a-Glance event on Friday, February 21st from Noon-2pm. More information on this event, including a list of speakers, talk titles, and a form to RSVP, can be found here:https://vision.wisc.edu/MERI-at-a-Glance/ Tuesday, March 11th, 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 mixed media stitchworks by twenty-two Memory Cloth Circle artists – will explore the multifaceted impacts of color. The exhibition runs …
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 …