Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
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 from Institute members’ research, selected from among the ~180 featured in annual calendars. This exhibit also showcases cover designs by …
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 Program!
We’re pleased that Chancellor Mnookin has chosen to highlight research from MERI Director David Gamm’s lab to launch her new webpage on transformative, federally funded work happening right now at UW–Madison. You can read about the Gamm Lab’s research here and learn more about our university’s other impactful, cutting-edge research projects by visiting the Chancellor’s webpage here.
Cycle for Sight 2025 kicks off at the Princeton Club West on Saturday, March 15th, with teams continuing to exercise in the community through April. You can register or donate to Cycle for Sight 2025 now! The McPherson Eye Research Institute’s annual fundraising event supports a range of grants for research on blinding diseases taking place …
As a fundamental aspect of human experience, color influences our perceptions, emotions, and interactions with the world around us. This exhibition – comprised of stained glass works by Randy Glysch and of fiber, needlework, and mixed media stitchworks by twenty-two Memory Cloth Circle artists – will explore the multifaceted impacts of color. The exhibition runs …
In the new issue of InSights you can read about Dr. Roomasa Channa’s plan to ensure broader access to diabetic retinopathy care, and learn how Dr. Karen Schloss’s lab helps us make better decisions about using colors in our work. Also included are exciting announcements about an upcoming clinical trial for retinitis pigmentosa, and the …
Thank you to speaker David J. Wilson and all those who attended the 2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture! If you couldn’t make it to the talk, you can watch the entire presentation here.
The May 6th edition of the Wisconsin State Journal features an article on Sight Beyond Vision, the latest exhibition at the McPherson ERI’s Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery! This show, which is a collaboration between MERI and Arts for All Wisconsin, brings together work by Wisconsin artists with low vision. You can read the full article on …
The new issue of InSights includes an extended piece on iPSC-derived retinal cell therapeutics and their road to clinical trials; a look at a MERI member’s work to develop new methods to assess vision in dogs; a snapshot of four MERI awardees in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences who are researching Retinitis Pigmentosa, Age-related Macular …
The McPherson ERI and the UW–Madison Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS) are in the process of hiring a faculty member with a research program in AMD! The position lists PhD, MD, or MD/PhD as qualifications and at least 50% of their effort must be related to AMD research. The tenure home would be in DOVS. …