Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Dr. Michael Altaweel (Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) has been awarded the Monroe E. Trout Chair in Vision Research, established by Dr. Monroe and Sandra Trout in 2020. The Monroe E. Trout Chair is the third endowed chair established by the Trouts in the McPherson Eye Research Institute, following the Sandra Lemke Trout Chair …
2020 Virtual MERI-at-a-Glance, Friday, February 26th MERI-at-a-Glance is an annual event (on Zoom this year due to the pandemic) that highlights the breadth of vision research conducted by McPherson ERI members at UW–Madison and other campuses. Speakers give a brief overview of the type of research performed in their lab. These quick talks offer an …
The Expanding Our Vision (EOV) grant program was started this year to provide awards of up to $10,000 to researchers performing vision-related research in visual communication, visual cognition, visual perception/performance, data visualization, development of novel imaging techniques for the visual system, computer sciences, and/or bioinformatics. Research in these areas is essential for understanding the intricacies …
Please join us for the McPherson ERI Fall 2020 Trainee Symposium, to be held online in lieu of our annual in-person poster session. McPherson ERI trainees will give 3-minute “flash talks” on their current research geared towards both McPherson ERI peers and a general audience. Over the summer, the McPherson ERI sponsored several trainees (graduate …
A collaboration among four McPherson ERI member labs has resulted in a proof-of-concept method to correct an inherited form of macular degeneration that causes blindness and is currently untreatable. The research, which focused on Best disease and was led by Divya Sinha, an Assistant Scientist in David Gamm’s lab, and Ben Steyer, an MD-PhD student …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute’s Research and Leadership Committees are pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of the Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grants. Anjani Sreepada Chakrala, Ralph W. Nelson, and Abhilash Sawant will each receive a one-year grant award of $4000 funded by the Institute’s Cycle for Sight event, which raises money to support vision …
The McPherson ERI Visiting Scholar Program (VSP) provides a unique opportunity for McPherson ERI members to invite researchers from other institutions to visit UW–Madison for up to a week. Such immersive experiences facilitate in-depth interactions and exchanges of ideas, which in turn seed or solidify collaborations. For the second consecutive year, owing to the continued success …
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdocs from McPherson ERI members’ research groups to attend conferences to present vision-related work and to advance educational and professional development opportunities. The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two trainee award recipients from among the spring semester 2020 applicants. …
Karen Schloss, Assistant Professor in UW–Madison’s Department of Psychology, has received a grant for $558,702 from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program. The award is for a project intended to advance the understanding of visual reasoning for visual communication. Visual reasoning enables people to translate visual input to abstract concepts. For example, …
McPherson ERI members are invited to avail themselves of this funding opportunity – detailed guidelines and an application form are linked. The McPherson ERI Grant Summit Program seeks to increase support for UW–Madison vision research by facilitating successful resubmissions of federal grant applications. Grant Summit Program guidelines and the application form provide details. Applications are …