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 …
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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 …
Congratulations to Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award Winner Donna Neumann!
Congratulations to Associate Professor Donna Neumann, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Neumann’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Inhibiting repair of the Herpes Simplex Virus genome for therapeutic …
Dr. Karen Schloss featured on Wisconsin Public Radio
MERI member Karen Schloss (UW Department of Psychology and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery), recently sat down with WPR’s The Larry Meiller Show to discuss her research on how colors influence meaning, behavior, and emotion. Listen …
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Grant Accelerator Program Competition!
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the winners of our inaugural Grant Accelerator Program (GAP) award competition! Supported by the Alice McPherson Endowment Fund for the Visual Sciences, the Van Vreede McPherson ERI Greatest …
Congratulations to Prof. Krishanu Saha!
Congratulations to MERI PI and Retina Research Foundation Murphy Chair Prof. Krishanu Saha (WID, CoE, SMPH), who was recently named by STAT News as one of the 10 scientists who are moving CRISPR gene editing …