Cycle for Sight 2024 kicks off at the Princeton Club on Saturday, March 16th. The Princeton Club event is full, but you can still register, on your own or with a team, to walk or bike …
Announcing our Spring 2024 Walsh Travel Award Winners!
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce our Spring 2024 Walsh Research Travel Award recipients! Made possible by the David G. Walsh endowment, these travel awards provide support for MERI trainees to attend …
Congratulations to MERI member Shawn Green!
Prof. Shawn Green (Dept of Psychology) is one of 24 faculty winners of the 2024-25 Vilas Associates competition! The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance” being undertaken by faculty within 20 …
Computational tool helps uncover gene networks of cell fate
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 …
NEW PUBLICATION: Nonviral base editing of KCNJ13 mutation preserves vision in a model of inherited retinal channelopathy
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 …
Emerging Technologies at UW-Madison Get Boost from State Funds
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 …
Research Beyond Waisman Center: Discoveries that have spun into products
Multiple discoveries born from the minds and hard work of Waisman Center investigators have left the nest to become successful companies or products that have had a significant impact in the world through translational research. Included is …
Faculty receive 2023-24 WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, and Romnes Awards
Thirty-five of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education for 2023-24. The awardees span the four divisions on campus: arts and …
McPherson ERI Consortium Receives $29 Million NIH Grant to Advance Gene Editing Techniques
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 …
Dr Freya Mowat receives the Dr. Joe G. Hollyfield New Investigator Award for Macular Degeneration Research
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 …