Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
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 degeneration. The paper also notes that drugs commonly used to treat depression can counteract these abnormalities and protect the retina. …
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, …