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Member-2026

UW-Madison Recruits Leading AMD Researcher Jianhai Du, PhD, as MERI’s Inaugural Monroe E. Trout, Jr. Chair in Eye Research

Posted on July 16, 2026

  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 …

Posted in Archive, Center News, Member-2026, Members News

Prof. Bikash Pattnaik’s research published in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Posted on June 9, 2026

Congratulations to MERI RRF Daniel M. Albert Chair, Prof. Bikash Pattnaik, for his recent publication in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy! Prof. Pattnaik’s paper, titled “Engineered tRNA reduces vision loss in a mouse model of …

Posted in Archive, Member-2026, Members News, Research News, Research-2026

Kevin Eliceiri receives inaugural Spencer Shorte Legacy Award

Posted on May 12, 2026

The McPherson Eye Research Institute is proud to announce that our Associate Director Kevin Eliceiri has been named the inaugural recipient of the Spencer Shorte Legacy Award, presented by the Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities …

Posted in Archive, Member-2026, Members News

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