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The McPherson Eye Research Institute is proud to announce the McPherson ERI-funded 2022 Hilldale Undergraduate Award recipient in vision research. Congratulations to Lillian Li and her advisor, Ari Rosenberg (Dept. of Neuroscience), on Lillian Li’s proposal: Biologically Inspired Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Visual Processing Abstract: Our eyes sense two-dimensional (2D) projections of the environment, …

Skala to Develop New Imaging Approach for Retinal Diseases Melissa Skala, PhD, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has landed a grant from the National Eye Institute to develop a new imaging method for quantifying melanin levels in human eyes. The approach could allow for earlier disease detection and monitoring, as …