Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Big news! A groundbreaking eye therapy developed by MERI trainee Celia Bisbach and MERI Director David Gamm has been nominated for a 2025 WARF Innovation Award! Designed to treat retinal diseases, this new approach targets and eliminates VEGF—the protein responsible for abnormal blood vessel growth—right at the site of disease. The result? ✨ Fewer injections …
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Dean’s Research Staff Awards honor outstanding contributions by research staff working in research laboratories. In 2025, the inaugural year of the awards, the award recipients were selected by a subcommittee of the Basic Sciences Strategic Leadership Committee. Four awards were given out to research staff …
Thank you to everyone who attended our 17th Annual Vision Science Symposium, as well as our lecturer for the event, Dr. Allison Sekuler. If you missed the lecture, titled “Vision and the Brain: Towards Predictive Neuroscience for Precision Aging”, you can now access a recording at the link below.
3rd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture Thursday, Nov. 6th, 2025; HSLC 1345 Guest Speaker: M. Roy Wilson, MD (President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University) Why Do Some People Go Blind from Glaucoma and Others Do Not? Rethinking the Role of Race
17th Annual Vision Science Symposium Thursday, Oct. 9th, 2025; HSLC room 1345 Guest Speaker: Allison Sekuler (President & Chief Scientist, CABHI and Baycrest Academy for Research and Education at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care; Sandra A Rotman Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience; Professor, UT & McMaster) Vision and the Brain: Towards Predictive Neuroscience for Precision Aging
Explore works of art by scientists, artists, and curators working at the intersections of visual art, visual processing, and vision science in the Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery. Their images offer extraordinary views of our world, captured with the use of remarkable research tools. The winning entries will be on display in the gallery …
Congratulations to Professor Curtis Brandt, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Brandt’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Mechanisms of Sensory Nerve Loss in HSV-1 Keratitis.’ This project aims to understand how herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) causes nerve damage in the eye, which can lead to …
3rd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture and Hybrid Grand Rounds Friday, September 12th, 2025; HSLC room 1345 and Zoom Guest Speaker: Emily Chew, MD (National Eye Institute) Age-Related Macular Degeneration: An Update of AREDS and AREDS2
Congratulations to Associate Professor Xin Huang, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Huang’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Neural Mechanisms Underlying Perceptual Organization.’ This project investigates how the visual system selectively integrates local visual elements into a coherent object while segregating different objects from one another based on visual …
Congratulations to Associate Professor Donna Neumann, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Neumann’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Inhibiting repair of the Herpes Simplex Virus genome for therapeutic effect.’ This project investigates the role of cellular single-strand DNA damage repair in the repair of nicks and gaps in HSV-1 …