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 …
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Prof. Bikash Pattnaik’s research published in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
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 …
Kevin Eliceiri receives inaugural Spencer Shorte Legacy Award
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 …
Celia Bisbach, PhD, Awarded Grant From BrightFocus Foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research Program
BrightFocus Foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research program has awarded a two-year, $200,000 postdoctoral fellowship grant to Celia Bisbach, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for her innovative research in vision health. A …
MERI Member Donna Neumann Awarded NIH R01 to Advance HSV-1 Vision Research
MERI member Prof. Donna Neumann (DOVS) has been awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to support her project, “A chromatin loop controls the …
McPherson Eye Research Institute Member Randy Bartels Featured in New Article on Quantum Imaging
We are pleased to share a newly published online article highlighting the work of McPherson Eye Research Institute member Randy Bartels. The article explores recent advances in quantum imaging and how this emerging approach could open a powerful …
MERI members nominated for 2025 WARF Innovation Award!
Big news! A groundbreaking eye therapy developed by MERI trainee Celia Bisbach and MERI Director David Gamm has been nominated for a 2025 WARF Innovation Award! Designed to treat retinal diseases, this new approach targets …
Congratulations to Christine Sorenson, winner of a Dean’s Research Staff Award!
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Dean’s Research Staff Awards honor outstanding contributions by research staff working in research laboratories. In 2025, the inaugural year of the awards, the award recipients …
Congratulations to Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award Winner Curtis Brandt!
Congratulations to Professor Curtis Brandt, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Brandt’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Mechanisms of Sensory Nerve Loss in HSV-1 Keratitis.’ This project …
Congratulations to Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award Winner Xin Huang!
Congratulations to Associate Professor Xin Huang, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Huang’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Neural Mechanisms Underlying Perceptual Organization.’ This project investigates how the …