Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
We’re pleased that Chancellor Mnookin has chosen to highlight research from MERI Director David Gamm’s lab to launch her new webpage on transformative, federally funded work happening right now at UW–Madison. You can read about the Gamm Lab’s research here and learn more about our university’s other impactful, cutting-edge research projects by visiting the Chancellor’s webpage here.
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the winners of our inaugural Grant Accelerator Program (GAP) award competition! Supported by the Alice McPherson Endowment Fund for the Visual Sciences, the Van Vreede McPherson ERI Greatest Needs Fund, the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund, and additional donors to the McPherson ERI, the Grant Accelerator Program …
In a new study published in Stem Cell Reports, the Gamm Lab partnered with researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research to develop lab-grown pig retinal organoids. They found that pig-derived photoreceptors shared many similarities with those made from human retinal organoids. The researchers have now begun to do transplants in pigs using photoreceptors from the …
Congratulations to MERI PI and Retina Research Foundation Murphy Chair Prof. Krishanu Saha (WID, CoE, SMPH), who was recently named by STAT News as one of the 10 scientists who are moving CRISPR gene editing forward! Among other things, Saha’s current research is leveraging the power of CRISPR to develop new therapies for previously untreatable …