Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
8th Annual Vision Science Poster Session Tuesday, October 4th, 2016; HLSC 1335 Guest Speaker: Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility; Professor of Media Arts & Technology and Music, University of California, Santa Barbara Harnessing Sight and Sound to Explore Complex Information
A UW–Madison research team of half a dozen McPherson ERI colleagues, along with collaborators at Johns Hopkins University, has been selected as one of six groups to receive funding from the National Eye Institute with the goal of restoring vision by regenerating photoreceptor cells. Read more….
A multidisciplinary group of researchers is building a model of the retina that will help doctors better diagnose and develop treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Kristyn Masters and Pam Kreeger, both associate professors of biomedical engineering, in conjunction with Aparna Lakkaraju, an assistant professor with the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences…Read more
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 – WIMR conference room 7001A MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2015 – 2016 Tuesday, October 11, 2016 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Color Perception Tuesday, November 8, 2016 – WIMR conference room 7001A Tissue Engineering Methodology Tuesday, December 13, 2016 – Genetics/Biotechnology room 1360 Options for Children with Congenital …
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published a new paper by Li Xuan Tan, Kimberly Toops, and Aparna Lakkaraju, which pinpoints how immune abnormalities in the retinal pigment epithelium can cause macular degeneration. The paper also notes that drugs commonly used to treat depression can counteract these abnormalities and protect the retina. …