Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
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 at MIT, spoke about “Learning to See Late in Childhood.” His lecture focused on Project Prakash – an initiative restoring sight to blind children …
Waisman Biomanufacturing and McPherson Eye Research Institute held this day-long workshop on March 17, 2016, at The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, WI (8:00 am – 6:30 pm). The development of cell therapies for ocular diseases from basic research to clinical studies was presented and discussed, including: the development of cells for drug screening applications, …
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 therapeutic stem cell interventions, and computational optics to toddlers and TV. These McPherson ERI members presented at MERI-at-a-Glance: Ariel Alperstein, …