The McPherson ERI’s annual poster session, held on Tuesday, October 4th in the atrium of the School of Medicine and Public Health, attracted close to 100 McPherson ERI members and affiliated researchers. 37 MERI members, …
Research-2016
Gamm team and collaborators awarded NEI grant to reverse blindness
A UW-Madison research team of half a dozen McPherson ERI colleagues, along with collaborators at Johns Hopkins University, has been selected as one of six groups to receive funding from the National Eye Institute with …
Researchers awarded grant to improve treatment of AMD
A multidisciplinary group of researchers is building a model of the retina that will help doctors better diagnose and develop treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Kristyn Masters and Pam Kreeger, both associate professors of …
Macular degeneration prevention advances with Lakkaraju team’s new paper
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published a new paper by Li Xuan Tan, Kimberly Toops, and Aparna Lakkaraju which pinpoints how immune abnormalities in the retinal pigment epithelium can cause macular …
Capacity Crowd Hears Pawan Sinha Give 2016 McPherson Endowed Lecture
The McPherson Eye Research Institute celebrated its 10th Anniversary with the 4th Annual Endowed Lecture on Thursday, April 28, 2016. Pawan Sinha, PhD, Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences …
1st Annual Biopharmaceutical Development Workshop: Focus on Ocular Therapeutics
Waisman Biomanufacturing and McPherson Eye Research Institute held this day long workshop on March 17, 2016 at The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, WI (8:00am – 6:30pm). The development of cell therapies for ocular diseases …
MERI-at-a-Glance Highlights the Range of McPherson ERI Research Interests
MERI-at-a-Glance successfully took place on February 19th at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery (WID), where eight short research talks were presented. Vision-related findings and interests were shared from cataracts and glaucoma, viral gene delivery to …