Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Graduate student Jake Khoussine won this year’s Vision Sciences Poster Presentation Competition with his poster “Retinal output dysfunction in a model of congenital stationary night blindness”. Graduate student Michele Salzman and Research intern Anoushka Kuckreja took home Honorable Mentions this year. Special thanks to both Nikon and the University Bookstore for supplying prizes for this …
15th Annual Vision Science Poster Session Thursday, November 9th, 2023; Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: Mary Peterson (University of Arizona) Visual Ambiguity: Is it really rare?
The new issue of InSights includes an extended look at the MERI-centric gene editing collaboration that recently received a $29 million NIH grant to launch the CRISPR Vision Program; a look at the work of three MERI members in the Department of Kinesiology; an introduction to some of our new trainee members; and images from the Mandelbaum …
Our Inaugural Daniel M. Albert Lecture will take place in HSLC 1325 at 4pm on Thursday, October 26th, 2023! This year’s Albert Lecturer is Prof. David Gamm (RRF Emmett A Humble Distinguished Director, McPherson Eye Research Institute; Sandra Lemke Trout Chair in Eye Research; Professor, Dept of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UW–Madison), who will deliver …
1st Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture Thursday, Oct 26th, 2023; Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: David Gamm, MD, PhD (Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; RRF Emmett A. Humble Distinguished Director, McPherson Eye Research Institute; Sandra Lemke Trout Chair in Eye Research) Overcoming Challenges to Photoreceptor Cell Replacement
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce this Fall semester’s application opportunity for our AMD/RP Awards! Supported by the generosity of Roger and Lynn Van Vreede and by the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund, these competitive, annual awards are intended to advance research on age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP). This …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce an exciting new funding opportunity: The Glaucoma and Optic Neuropathies Research Award! Made possible by an anonymous donor’s generous gift, this competitive award provides $50,000 to advance research on either glaucoma or optic neuropathies and thereby expands our pilot awards program (which includes our AMD and RP …
1st Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture Saturday, September 23rd, 2023; Lawrence University Music-Drama Center, Stansbury Theater Guest Speaker: Kapil Bharti (Director of the National Eye Institute) Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Clinical Trials, Stem Cells, and other Therapies
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 – 3571 WIMR II TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2023 – 1360 BIOTECH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2023 – 3571 WIMR II TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2023 – 1360 BIOTECH