Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Cycle for Sight 2024 kicks off at the Princeton Club on Saturday, March 16th. The Princeton Club event is full, but you can still register, on your own or with a team, to walk or bike through April as part of Cycle for Sight! And you can always donate to support the event and support vision research at …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce our Spring 2024 Walsh Research Travel Award recipients! Made possible by the David G. Walsh endowment, these travel awards provide support for MERI trainees to attend and present vision-related research at a professional conference or symposium. This semester, the MERI Research and Leadership Committees have selected …
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 …
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 …
Our Spring 2023 newsletter reviews the extraordinary career of Dr. Alice McPherson; announces the new Trout AMD Project; and highlights a new $30 million NIH grant to MERI members to advance gene editing therapies for two devastating eye diseases.
Cycle for Sight 2023, the McPherson Eye Research Institute’s annual fundraiser, raised $60,000 this year. Teams participated both at our kickoff event on March 25th at the Princeton Club (which went very well in spite of a snowstorm!), and in the community. As always, you can continue to donate to Cycle for Sight from anywhere in the …
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdocs from McPherson ERI members’ research groups to attend conferences to present vision-related work and to advance educational and professional development opportunities. The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two trainee award recipients from among fall semester 2019 applicants: Ryan Donahue, …
McPherson ERI member H. Adam Steinberg, who for many years has offered McPherson ERI members and trainees an annual workshop on effectively presenting and communicating science in posters and presentations, will co-teach an Illuminating Discovery Science Communication Course this fall. The course, which will be held in the Discovery Building and sponsored by WID, aims …
With funding from Cycle for Sight as well as from the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Fund, two David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards will be awarded to support graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers in Fall 2019. The application process is open to postdoctoral researchers and graduate students currently in training in any McPherson ERI …