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.
Our Spring 2023 newsletter reviews the extraordinary career of Dr. Alice McPherson; announces the new Trout AMD Project; and highlights a new $30 million NIH grant to MERI members to advance gene editing therapies for two devastating eye diseases.
11th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture Thursday, May 25th; Health Science Learning Center Guest Speaker: Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA (Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology (Pathology), Harvard Medical School; Associate Chief of Basic & Translational Science, Mass. Eye and Ear; Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research, Department of Ophthalmology) Ocular Angiogenesis: Biology, Pathology, …
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 …
Cycle for Sight 2023, the McPherson Eye Research Institute’s annual fundraiser, raised $60,000 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 …
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023 – 3571 WIMR II TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2023 – 1360 BIOTECH TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2023 – 3571 WIMR II TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2023 – 1360 BIOTECH
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 …