Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce this Fall semester’s application opportunity for our AMD/RP Awards! Supported by the generosity of Roger and Lynn Van Vreede and by the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund, these competitive, annual awards are intended to advance research on age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP). This …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce an exciting new funding opportunity: The Glaucoma and Optic Neuropathies Research Award! Made possible by an anonymous donor’s generous gift, this competitive award provides $50,000 to advance research on either glaucoma or optic neuropathies and thereby expands our pilot awards program (which includes our AMD and RP …
1st Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture Saturday, September 23rd, 2023; Lawrence University Music-Drama Center, Stansbury Theater Guest Speaker: Kapil Bharti (Director of the National Eye Institute) Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Clinical Trials, Stem Cells, and other Therapies
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 – 3571 WIMR II TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2023 – 1360 BIOTECH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2023 – 3571 WIMR II TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2023 – 1360 BIOTECH
Computational tool helps uncover gene networks of cell fate A recently published study from the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery (WID), titled Inference of cell type-specific gene regulatory networks on cell lineages from single cell omic datasets integrates both computational and biological sciences by using machine learning to better understand the driving forces of cellular identity. …
Nonviral base editing of KCNJ13 mutation preserves vision in a model of inherited retinal channelopathy We are pleased to announce that a new study, with contributions by several MERI members, has just been published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation! The paper, entitled ‘Nonviral base editing of KCNJ13 mutation preserves vision in a model of …
Emerging technologies at UW–Madison Get Boost from State Funds Emerging technologies developed at UW–Madison will receive funding assistance as the result of an on-campus grant program administered by UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product (D2P) and a matching grant of $300,0000 from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC). One project that is being funded by these programs …