Category: 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 of Florida) Optimizing viral gene delivery for the treatment of X-linked retinoschisis

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 & Translational Science, Mass. Eye and Ear; Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research, Department of Ophthalmology) Ocular Angiogenesis: Biology, Pathology, …

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 for Eye Care: Perspectives from the National Eye Institute

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, National Institutes of Health) Translating RPE Biology into Disease Treatments using iPS Cells

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 California, Berkley; Vice Chair, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, USA; Vice Chair, Fighting Blindness, Ireland) Engineering “gene-independent” therapies for blindness

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 Surgeons; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) From Receptors to Behavior

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

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