Category: Research-2017

Bassam Shakhashiri receives national award

Dr. Richard R. Dubielzig was featured in this NPR story and in the Wisconsin State Journal

Wicab’s BrainPort device profiled in The New Yorker

Stem Cell Therapies: The Hope and the Hype

With stem cells the focus of much recent attention in the media, this statement from Dr. David Gamm clarifies both the promise and the misconceptions about stem cell use for vision therapies.

Discovering How the Retina Ages With Dr. Akihiro Ikeda, DVM, PhD

Why do age-related diseases occur when people age? This sounds like a simple question – when else should they occur? But it is a key question that applies to retinal diseases including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which affects roughly 11 million people in the U.S. and usually leads to loss of central vision. Aging is …

Dr. Jose-Alain Sahel Gives 5th Annual McPherson Endowed Lecture

Approximately 150 people heard Dr. Jose-Alain Sahel deliver the 5th Annual McPherson Endowed Lecture on Thursday, April 27th.

Inside UW-Madison article features Melissa Skala and cancer research award

William Murphy in the Wisconsin State Journal: “Borrowing from nature: UW-Madison scientists use plants to grow stem cells”

Karen Schloss in an NPR story regarding an upcoming paper to appear in the journal Cognitive Science

Photoreceptor Replacement Research

Dr. David Gamm gave an overview of the current state of photoreceptor replacement research at Wednesday Nite @ the Lab in February.