Cycle for Sight 2025

Donate to Cycle for Sight 2025!

Cycle for Sight 2025 kicked off at the Princeton Club West on Saturday, March 15th.  You can still register or donate to Cycle for Sight 2025!  The McPherson Eye Research Institute’s annual fundraising event continues through April with team events in the community.

Questions?  Email Michael Chaim, chaim@wisc.edu.  Thank you for your help!

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Cycle for Sight 2024 hits a new high!

Cycle for Sight 2024 raised more than $72,000 through June 2024—an all-time high.

Our Princeton Club spinning sessions on March 16^th went very well—no snowstorm this year!  The Gamm Lab team, below, is modeling our new, higher quality fabric shirts (suggested by a Kenzi’s Team member).  Kenzi’s Team once again took the lead in fundraising, with other teams doing very well indeed.  Blind Take Off was just shy of $10,000, an all-time high for that amazing team!  Teams that exercised elsewhere in April included med students from UW’s School of Medicine and Public Health, the Isthmus Eye Care team, Delta Gamma, and multiple McPherson ERI labs.  Bonus points to Dr. Karen Schloss’s lab, which on a rainy day exercised by “hiking” through the Chazen Museum.

We’re very grateful that our major sponsors continue to support the event, so thank you to Opsis Therapeutics, the Chippewa Valley Eye Clinic, and the Princeton Club.

Cycle for Sight will again support vision research grants this year, including Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Awards.  We’ve been able to add more research awards every year because of your support.

Pictures from this year’s ride are here.  Thank you, and we look forward to exercising with you again in 2025!

Cycle for Sight 2023 Update

Cycle for Sight 2023 surpasses last year’s total!

Cycle for Sight 2023, the McPherson Eye Research Institute’s annual fundraiser, raised $64,102 this year.  Teams participated both at our kickoff event on March 25th at the Princeton Club (which went very well in spite of a snowstorm!), and in the community.

As always, you can continue to donate to Cycle for Sight from anywhere in the world!  

Cycle for Sight supports the Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Awards, whose 2023 recipients were announced recently.  Also, check out our 2022 annual report to read about McPherson ERI research highlights from the past year.

We’re very grateful to our sponsors, Opsis Therapeutics and the Princeton Club!

And check out our pictures from Cycle for Sight 2023!

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Thank you for making Cycle for Sight 2022 a success!

The McPherson ERI’s annual research fundraiser was once again driven by teams that exercised outdoors – walking, running, and cycling for sight around the state and the country. Kenzi’s Team led a walk around the Wisconsin State Capitol on Sunday, May 1st; the team reached a new high in fundraising this year. Thank you to all who participated, donated, and sponsored the event! Check out the pictures!