Dr. Daniel Albert, Founding Director of the McPherson ERI, received the prestigious Laureate Recognition Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), the highest honor given by the Academy. The award to Dr. Albert was …
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Bikash Pattnaik Funded for Pediatric Blindness Research
Dr. Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, McPherson ERI member and past holder of the RRF Rebecca Meyer Brown Professorship, has received a $1 million-plus gift for the study of novel therapy approaches for Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA). …
Dietary Supplements: Do They Help with AMD?
Drs. Barbara Blodi, Ronald Danis, and Suresh Chandra are among the authors of the long-awaited AREDS2 study, which examined the effect of various dietary supplements (including omega-3 fatty acids, lutein and zeaxanthin) in subjects with …
Finding New Treatments for AMD
Dr. Nader Sheibani and colleagues at UW-Madison (including co-investigators Dr. Christine Sorenson and Dr. Bikash Pattnaik, Dr. Ronald Danis, and Dr. Daniel Albert), Northwestern University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center were recently awarded …
DR. DANIEL ALBERT PROFILES AN OPHTHAMOLOGICAL PREDECESSOR
On the 250th anniversary of the death of composer George Frideric Handel, Dr. Daniel Albert recently spoke to BBC Radio about the signs, symptoms and probable eye diseases of Handel and Bach and why they …
EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ANNUAL POSTER SESSION
Eye Research Institute and Visual Culture Center members and associated scientists, researchers, postdocs, graduate students and advanced undergraduates with wide-ranging interests in vision gathered to showcase both scientific research and artistic works in the annual …
ERI GUEST LECTURER
Professor Stephen Palmer, Department of Psychology, UC-Berkeley Dr. Palmer will present a talk on “Aesthetics in Vision Science: Understanding Preferences for Color.” His interests are in perceptual organization in vision, contextual effects on local cognitive …
MEMORIAL LIBRARY HONORS LOUIS BRAILLE WITH EXHIBIT
A small exhibit on the first floor of Memorial Library honors the bicentenary of the birth of Louis Braille, born in 1809 in Coupvray, near Paris, France, and died in 1852 in Paris. The system …
DANIEL UHLRICH, PHD, NAMED CHAIR OF SMPH’S ANIMAL CARE & USE COMMITTEE
Daniel Uhlrich, PhD, of the Department of Anatomy has been named Chair of the SMPH Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC). This committee is responsible for oversight and evaluation of the School’s animal care and …
BRAINPORT DEVICE DEBUTS AT 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FOR NEI
Erik Weihenmayer, a blind mountain climber, will describe his experiences with BrainPort at the NEI 40th anniversary kickoff. The event will feature a screening of Blindsight, an award-winning documentary chronicling Weihenmayer’s mountain-climbing journey up the …