Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
We are pleased to announce that the McPherson ERI will sponsor a Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship in 2014. The MERI Leadership Committee initiated this undergraduate support opportunity to advance vision-related research on campus. Funds for this fellowship derive from MERI’s Annual Cycle for Sight Fundraiser.
The new MERI calendar is out! The calendar highlights MERI research over the past year, 2013, with beautiful images supplied by MERI research labs. MERI 2014 Calendar Research and Images
Dr. Daniel Albert, Founding Director of the McPherson ERI, received the prestigious Laureate Recognition Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), the highest honor given by the Academy. The award to Dr. Albert was presented on Sunday, November 17, 2013, during the Opening Session of during the opening session of the AAO annual meeting …
5th Annual Vision Science & Visual Art Poster and Gallery Session September 26th, 2013; Health Science Learning Center room 1325 Guest Speaker: Thomas Cronin (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland-Baltimore County) Incredible Eyes: The Visual World of Mantis Shrimps
Dr. Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, McPherson ERI member and past holder of the RRF Rebecca Meyer Brown Professorship, has received a $1 million-plus gift for the study of novel therapy approaches for Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA). In collaboration with Co-Investigators David Gamm, MD, PhD, and William Hauswirth, PhD (University of Florida), Dr. Pattnaik’s three-year study aims, …
Drs. Barbara Blodi, Ronald Danis, and Suresh Chandra are among the authors of the long-awaited AREDS2 study, which examined the effect of various dietary supplements (including omega-3 fatty acids, lutein and zeaxanthin) in subjects with age-related macular degeneration. UW Health Drs. Justin Gottlieb, Michael Ip, Michael Altaweel, and Thomas Stevens also followed patients for the …
1st Annual MERI Endowed Lecture April 22, 2013; Ebling Symposium Center Room 1220 Guest Speaker: Jean Bennett, MD, PhD; Professor of the Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Scientist, Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Gene Therapy for LCA (Leber Congenital Amaurosis: …
Dr. Nader Sheibani and colleagues at UW–Madison (including co-investigators Dr. Christine Sorenson and Dr. Bikash Pattnaik, Dr. Ronald Danis, and Dr. Daniel Albert), Northwestern University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center were recently awarded a $6.2 million grant over five years from the National Eye Institute to study new treatments for wet AMD. Quest …
3rd Annual Vision Science & Visual Art Poster and Gallery Session October 18, 2011; Health Sciences Learning Center room 1306 Guest Speaker: Gordon Gund History and Progress of the Foundation Fighting Blindness
2nd Annual Vision Science & Visual Art Poster and Gallery Session Tuesday, September 28th, 2010; Health Sciences Learning Center room 1335 Guest speaker: Dr. Michael Marmor, Stanford University The Artist’s Eyes: Vision and the History of Art