Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
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, …
Gillian McLellan (Ophthalmology) is shown here checking out the eyes of a rare human/Mustelidae hybrid at a Badger hockey game in November. The creature, fully recovered, later posed with McPherson ERI Director David Gamm.
In a study released today, researchers from a variety of institutions – including the Marshfield Clinic, whose director, Dr. Murray Brilliant, is the lead author of the study – have announced that patients who use the drug L-DOPA, commonly used for Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders, are “significantly less likely to develop Age-related Macular …
A New Study from McPherson ERI Members & Collaborators Shows That Patients Taking the Drug L-DOPA are Significantly Less Likely to Develop Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). Read more
Guest Lecturers Bring Neuromagic to the HSLC McPherson ERI’s annual event showcasing vision-related research was held on Tuesday, November 3rd, drawing more than 100 participants to the atrium of the Health Sciences Learning Center. Following the poster session, Drs. Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik (Professors at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City and …
The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two award recipients—one graduate student and one postdoctoral researcher— from among a strong and diverse field of fall semester 2015 applicants: Mitra Farnoodian, graduate student (Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH; Nader Sheibani, mentor), will attend the April 2016 Experimental Biology conference in San Diego, CA. Her …
Dr. Alice McPherson was presented with UW–Madison’s Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor given by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, at the Chancellor’s Luncheon on Thursday, October 15th. In announcing the award, the WAA cited Dr. McPherson’s establishment of the Retina Research Foundation, along with her “impressive” support for the University of Wisconsin (including her critical …
Nader Sheibani, Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and holder of the Retina Research Foundation Alice R. McPherson Research Chair, focuses on developing strategies to counter the abnormal growth of blood vessels that is at the heart of AMD (age-related macular degeneration) and diabetic retinopathy – two of the leading causes of …
In recognition of their extraordinary support for the McPherson ERI, the 9th floor conference room in WIMR (within the Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery) has been named in honor of Sandra and Monroe Trout. Dr. and Mrs. Trout are distinguished patrons of the arts and sciences who have endowed faculty positions within the McPherson …
Medical students Preshita S. Date and Minh T. Nguyen have each been awarded inaugural Dan and Ellie Albert Student Vision Research Awards, supported by the Dan and Ellie Albert Fund in conjunction with the Shapiro Summer Research Program. Date will work with Drs. Barbara Blodi and Amitha Domalpally on a project involving Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence …