Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
The spring 2014 McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards, which provide funds for graduate students to attend research conferences in order to present vision-related work, have been announced; recipients will also speak in the McPherson ERI seminar series in spring 2015.
We are pleased to announce that the McPherson ERI will sponsor a Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship in 2014. The MERI Leadership Committee initiated this undergraduate support opportunity to advance vision-related research on campus. Funds for this fellowship derive from MERI’s Annual Cycle for Sight Fundraiser.
The new MERI calendar is out! The calendar highlights MERI research over the past year, 2013, with beautiful images supplied by MERI research labs. MERI 2014 Calendar Research and Images
Dr. Daniel Albert, Founding Director of the McPherson ERI, received the prestigious Laureate Recognition Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), the highest honor given by the Academy. The award to Dr. Albert was presented on Sunday, November 17, 2013, during the Opening Session of during the opening session of the AAO annual meeting …
Dr. Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, McPherson ERI member and past holder of the RRF Rebecca Meyer Brown Professorship, has received a $1 million-plus gift for the study of novel therapy approaches for Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA). In collaboration with Co-Investigators David Gamm, MD, PhD, and William Hauswirth, PhD (University of Florida), Dr. Pattnaik’s three-year study aims, …
Drs. Barbara Blodi, Ronald Danis, and Suresh Chandra are among the authors of the long-awaited AREDS2 study, which examined the effect of various dietary supplements (including omega-3 fatty acids, lutein and zeaxanthin) in subjects with age-related macular degeneration. UW Health Drs. Justin Gottlieb, Michael Ip, Michael Altaweel, and Thomas Stevens also followed patients for the …
Dr. Nader Sheibani and colleagues at UW–Madison (including co-investigators Dr. Christine Sorenson and Dr. Bikash Pattnaik, Dr. Ronald Danis, and Dr. Daniel Albert), Northwestern University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center were recently awarded a $6.2 million grant over five years from the National Eye Institute to study new treatments for wet AMD. Quest …
On the 250th anniversary of the death of composer George Frideric Handel, Dr. Daniel Albert recently spoke to BBC Radio about the signs, symptoms, and probable eye diseases of Handel and Bach and why they went blind. Both composers were treated by Chevalier John Taylor, a British eye surgeon and shameless self-promoter with an unsavory …
Eye Research Institute and Visual Culture Center members and associated scientists, researchers, postdocs, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates with wide-ranging interests in vision gathered to showcase both scientific research and artistic works in the annual ERI poster session. Outstanding graduate student and postdoctoral trainee poster and artwork presentations were recognized with the following awards: Best …
Professor Stephen Palmer, Department of Psychology, UC-Berkeley Dr. Palmer will present a talk on “Aesthetics in Vision Science: Understanding Preferences for Color.” His interests are in perceptual organization in vision, contextual effects on local cognitive processing, the aesthetics of color and spatial arrangement, and the nature and order of visual processing.