Alice McPherson Lecture

13th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture Thursday, May 29th; HSLC Room 1345 Guest Speaker: Shannon E. Boye, PhD (George H. Kitzman Professor of Genetics; Chief, Division of Cellular and Molecular Therapy, Department of Pediatrics, University …

12th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture Thursday, June 6th, 2024; Health Science Learning Center room 1306 Guest Speaker: Michael Dyer, PhD (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) Retinoblastoma: From Developmental Origins to Molecular Targeted Therapy

11th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture Thursday, May 25th; Health Science Learning Center Guest Speaker: Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA (Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology (Pathology), Harvard Medical School; Associate Chief of Basic & …

10th Annual McPherson Endowed Lecture June 23rd, 2022; Health Sciences Learning Center Room 1306 Guest Speaker: Dr. Michael F. Chiang (Director of the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health) Artificial Intelligence and Data Science …

9th Annual McPherson Endowed Lecture December 9th, 2021; Virtual Guest Speaker: Kapil Bharti, PhD (Senior Investigator, Ocular and Stem Cell Translational Research Section; Adjunct Group Leader, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Eye Institute, …

  8th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture November 12th, 2020; Virtual Guest Speaker: John Gerard Flannery, PhD (Neurobiology division, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, The School of Optometry, University of …

7th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture May 6, 2019; Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum Guest Speaker: Charles Zuker, PhD (Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Neuroscience, Columbia University College of Physicians and …

5th Annual Endowed Lecture – Thursday, April 27, 2017 Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1335 José-Alain Sahel, MD, PhD Shooting in the Dark: Maintaining cone function in retinal degenerations

4th Annual Endowed Lecture – Thursday, April 28, 2016 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building, Room 1211 Pawan Siha, PhD Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Learning to See Late …

3rd Annual McPherson Eye Research Institute Endowed Lecture Monday, May 18, 2015 – Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building Guest Speaker: Sheila Nirenberg, PhD A Prosthetic Eye to Treat Blindness