Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from MERI members’ research groups to attend research conferences to present vision-related work. The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two outstanding award recipients. Congratulations to both award recipients, who will be invited to speak in the McPherson …
Brian Allen and Caitlin MacNair, graduate students from McPherson ERI members’ research groups, have been chosen from an excellent and diverse field of applicants to receive McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards. These awards provide funds to attend research conferences, in order to present vision-related work and advance educational and professional development opportunities. Congratulations …
Two McPherson ERI members from the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences were the recent recipients of $25,000 grant awards from the James Christensen Estate Macular Degeneration Research Fund. The fund, established by a generous estate gift, was created to support research on age-related macular degeneration on campus. Year-long funding will advance AMD research by …
Drs. David Gamm (Director, McPherson Eye Research Institute), Brad Schwartz (CEO, Morgridge Institute for Research), and Terri Young (Chair, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) are pleased to announce the recipient of a $25,000 grant award for Metabolism Research in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. This pilot award was partially funded by the James Christenson Estate Macular …
We are pleased to announce Anna-Lisa Doebley as the recipient of the 2014-2015 McPherson ERI-sponsored Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship. This award provides a grant of $3,000 to the student and $500 to the faculty collaborator. Under the mentorship of Dr. Aki Ikeda (Medical Genetics) Ms. Doebley will be exploring the role of TMEM135 in cellular …
The spring 2014 McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards, which provide funds for graduate students to attend research conferences in order to present vision-related work, have been announced; recipients will also speak in the McPherson ERI seminar series in spring 2015.
We are pleased to announce that the McPherson ERI will sponsor a Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship in 2014. The MERI Leadership Committee initiated this undergraduate support opportunity to advance vision-related research on campus. Funds for this fellowship derive from MERI’s Annual Cycle for Sight Fundraiser.
The new MERI calendar is out! The calendar highlights MERI research over the past year, 2013, with beautiful images supplied by MERI research labs. MERI 2014 Calendar Research and Images
Dr. Daniel Albert, Founding Director of the McPherson ERI, received the prestigious Laureate Recognition Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), the highest honor given by the Academy. The award to Dr. Albert was presented on Sunday, November 17, 2013, during the Opening Session of during the opening session of the AAO annual meeting …
Dr. Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, McPherson ERI member and past holder of the RRF Rebecca Meyer Brown Professorship, has received a $1 million-plus gift for the study of novel therapy approaches for Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA). In collaboration with Co-Investigators David Gamm, MD, PhD, and William Hauswirth, PhD (University of Florida), Dr. Pattnaik’s three-year study aims, …