Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce its second annual research grant competition for trainees whose principal investigator mentors are McPherson ERI members at UW–Madison or at another Wisconsin institution. This includes trainees under members at UW-Milwaukee, UW-Oshkosh, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University, and Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation. Trainees invited to …
Applications for Spring 2018 David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards are due by March 7, 2018. Application requirements and the application form are linked within.
MERI-at-a-Glance featured short presentations by eight McPherson ERI-affiliated researchers on Friday, December 8th. Friday, December 8th 2017, 11:45 am to 2:00 pm DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery “MERI-at-a-Glance” was a program of eight short research presentations (10 minutes each) sharing vision-related findings and interests. Research presentations included:
Recently, the Institute underwent a transition in the Associate Director position, which offers an opportunity to highlight two of McPherson ERI’s extraordinary scientists and leaders. The Associate Director serves as an important link to McPherson ERI members and plays a key role in encouraging vision research collaborations. For the past five years, Dr. Aki Ikeda …
A team of McPherson ERI scientists headed by Dr. David Gamm was recognized by the National Eye Institute as part of an initiative aimed at improving the production of human 3D retina structures grown from stem cells, a technology developed using human cells by McPherson ERI Director and lead investigator David Gamm. The UW–Madison team, …
Close to 100 McPherson ERI members and associates attended the 9th Annual Vision Science Poster Session on Thursday, October 12th. The session was immediately followed by the McPherson ERI distinguished guest lecturer, Professor Steven Seitz of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (and Seattle Team Director at Google Seattle). There …
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging tool commonly used in the eye for screening, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the retina and cornea. Used regularly by researchers in the eye and vision community to better understand diseases in the human eye, OCT is also used in multiple animal eye models. OCT can quickly …
Why do age-related diseases occur when people age? This sounds like a simple question – when else should they occur? But it is a key question that applies to retinal diseases including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which affects roughly 11 million people in the U.S. and usually leads to loss of central vision. Aging is …
Dozens of McPherson ERI members, trainees, and colleagues learned more about the breadth of vision research conducted by McPherson ERI members at UW–Madison and other campuses at the most recent MERI-at-a-Glance event, held on February 12th in the DeLuca Forum at WID. The list of presenters included: 1. Janis Eells, PhD (Biomedical Sciences, UW-Milwaukee) Seeing …
The McPherson ERI’s annual poster session, held on Tuesday, October 4th in the atrium of the School of Medicine and Public Health, attracted close to 100 McPherson ERI members and affiliated researchers. 37 MERI members, including many trainee members, displayed their current research in a wide range of vision science fields. Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director …