We hope you enjoyed learning about the wonderful world of birds and their vision as much as we enjoyed hosting it. Over 220 community members attended the lectures and demonstrations, making this the most well-attended Vision at in …
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UW-Madison Recruits Leading AMD Researcher Jianhai Du, PhD, as MERI’s Inaugural Monroe E. Trout, Jr. Chair in Eye Research
The UW-Madison Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the McPherson Eye Research Institute at UW-Madison are pleased to announce the recruitment of Jianhai Du, PhD. Dr. Du joined the Department of Ophthalmology and …
McPherson ERI Spring 2026 InSights is out!
The latest InSights newsletter features articles on Dr. Donna Neumann’s work on the HSV-1 virus’s latency and activation cycle and Dr. Celia Bisbach’s work on projects targeting a variety of blinding diseases, as well as …
Cycle for Sight 2026 Continues Through April
This year’s event kicked off on Saturday, March 14th. 2026 is our fifteenth year of Cycle for Sight! Our kickoff event was on Saturday, March 14th, at the Princeton Club West, where teams and individuals cycled in …
McPherson ERI Fall 2025 InSights is out!
The latest issue of InSights features articles on a groundbreaking stem cell clinical trial, MERI’s Outreach accomplishments, and the establishment of the Alice R. McPherson Archives! Download the PDF Here
Vision Science Symposium Lecture Recording Now Available
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 …
The 2025 Cool Science Image exhibition is now on display in our Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery!
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 …
Vision Research Update 2025
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2025 Vision Research Update! The talk, which was given by Dr. David Gamm, covered the Institute’s recent work on inherited retinal disease and age-related macular degeneration …
Visions of Science: Art from Eye Research
In this 20th anniversary year of the McPherson Eye Research Institute, the vision gallery features a retrospective of research-inspired images from our fifteen years of Eye Research Institute calendars – exhibiting 45 amazingly engaging images …
McPherson ERI Spring 2025 InSights is out!
The latest issue of InSights, the McPherson ERI’s bi-annual newsletter, features articles on treating inherited retinal diseases, the road to whole eyeball transplants, making pig retinal cells to advance eye treatments, and MERI’s new Grant Accelerator …