Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Using several innovative delivery methods, the new consortium – including researchers Krishanu Saha, Sarah Gong, David Gamm, Bikash Pattnaik and T. Michael Nork – will move ahead with gene editing techniques to treat two rare blinding diseases, Best disease and Leber congentital amaurosis (LCA). Read more.
The highly prestigious award is presented annually by the BrightFocus Foundation to the top-rated New Investigator Grant recipient in recognition of exceptionally promising and forward-thinking ideas in the field of age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Mowat holds a joint faculty position as an Assistant Professor in both the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and the …
New Nanocapsules Deliver Therapy Brain-Wide, Edit Alzheimer’s Gene in Mice Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, but they face a common barrier — the blood-brain barrier. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a way to move therapies across the brain’s protective membrane to deliver …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the third annual David G. Walsh Graduate Student Support Initiative (GSSI) award. The GSSI provides a 1-year grant of $12,000, financed by the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Endowment Fund, to a McPherson ERI member to support the work of a graduate student. Awardee: Principal Investigator Freya Mowat, BVsc, PhD, …
Remembering Dr. Alice McPherson With great sadness, the McPherson ERI notes the passing on January 16th, 2023, of our namesake and co-founder, Dr. Alice R. McPherson. Dr. McPherson’s many remarkable achievements are profiled on our website and will be honored in a forthcoming issue of our InSights newsletter. Her effects on the McPherson Eye Research …
Join us to view scenes from all seasons, captured outdoors in settings local and far away, to brighten our days and engage our imaginations. Envisioning the Environment – Scenes from Plein Air Artists, opens on Thursday, January 19, 2023 with works from twelve Wisconsin artists: Marc Anderson, Chuck Bauer, Wendy Crone, Jim Faecke, Andy Fletcher, …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce recipients of the first annual McPherson ERI Distinguished Paper Award. Funded by the Cycle for Sight event, this award recognizes the outstanding work of our trainees and the breadth and depth of research conducted by Institute member laboratories. **Prizes will be awarded in a brief ceremony to be held at the upcoming MERI-At-A-Glance event on …
With funding provided by generous gifts from Roger and Lynn Van Vreede and from the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund, the McPherson ERI Leadership Committee is pleased to announce two awards of $50,000 each to advance research in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and one award of $50,000 to advance research in retinitis pigmentosa (RP). …
Lab-grown Retinal Cells Make Successful Connections…. Successful connections between several types of dish-grown retinal cells were established in the lab, according to a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, a collaboration between the Gamm Lab (co-first-authors Allison Ludwig and Steven Mayerl) and Xinyu Zhao, PhD, is an essential …