Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdocs from McPherson ERI members’ research groups to attend conferences to present vision-related work and to advance educational and professional development opportunities. The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two trainee award recipients from among spring semester 2019 applicants: Melissa Schoenlein, …
The Visiting Scholar Program (VSP) provides a unique opportunity for McPherson ERI members to invite researchers from other institutions to visit UW–Madison for up to a week. These immersive experiences facilitate in-depth interactions and exchanges of ideas, which in turn seed or solidify collaborations. This year, owing to the continued success of Cycle for Sight, …
In a recent study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, Dr. Bikash Pattnaik’s lab has established the effectiveness of two methods of correcting ion channel deficiencies in defective genes in cells from patients with Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA16).
Applications are now available for the 2019 McPherson ERI vision research trainee grants, now renamed the Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Trainee Grants. Kenzi Valentyn was a courageous and upbeat young woman whose long battle against Kearns-Sayre syndrome, a degenerative disease with symptoms including vision loss, ended with her passing at age 30 in March 2017. …
For the fourth year, the McPherson Eye Research Institute has allocated funds to support one Visiting Scholar invited to the UW–Madison campus by a McPherson ERI member. (McPherson ERI members from other institutions can also be invited to UW–Madison as Visiting Scholars.) Funds will be available to support the costs of travel and lodging (up to $2000). Past visiting scholars …
On Friday, November 30th, McPherson ERI members, their trainees, and lab associates gathered at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) for MERI-at-a-Glance — eight short research presentations (10 minutes each) sharing vision-related findings and interests. The event was a great opportunity to learn more about the breadth of vision research conducted by McPherson ERI members at …