2nd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture and Hybrid Grand Rounds Friday, September 13th, 2024; HSLC room 1345 and Zoom Guest Speaker: Goldis Malek, PhD, FARVO, FAOPT (Duke Eye Center, Duke University) Potential Therapeutics for Age-Related …
Fall 2024 Seminar Series
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II Jacob Khoussine, PhD student (Cellular and Molecular Biology and Medical Scientist Training Program, UW–Madison) Mechanisms of retinal output dysfunction in congenital stationary night blindness John Zhu, PhD …
Gamm Lab Discoveries Culminate in FDA Approval of a Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Inherited Photoreceptor Diseases
BlueRock Therapeutics LP, a clinical stage cell therapy company and subsidiary of Bayer AG, today announced the clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for OpCT-001, …
Gamm lab Discoveries Culminate in FDA Approval of a Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Inherited Photoreceptor Diseases
BlueRock Therapeutics LP, a clinical stage cell therapy company and subsidiary of Bayer AG, today announced the clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for …
MERI Research Committee member Andreas Velten wins SIGGRAPH’s 2024 Test of Time Award
Andreas Velten, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, has received a 2024 Test of Time award from SIGGRAPH, the international meeting on graphics research. The award, which was for Velten’s 2013 research paper …
McPherson ERI Director David Gamm on Wisconsin Public Radio’s The Larry Meiller Show
Prof. David Gamm, Director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute, recently appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Larry Meiller Show to discuss the latest research on and treatments for macular degeneration, glaucoma, optic nerve damage, and to field …
12th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture (2024)
12th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture Thursday, June 6th, 2024; Health Science Learning Center room 1306 Guest Speaker: Michael Dyer, PhD (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) Retinoblastoma: From Developmental Origins to Molecular Targeted Therapy
Wisconsin State Journal features story on latest Vision Gallery exhibition
The May 6th edition of the Wisconsin State Journal features an article on Sight Beyond Vision, the latest exhibition at the McPherson ERI’s Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery! This show, which is a collaboration between …
McPherson ERI Spring 2024 InSights is out!
The new issue of InSights includes an extended piece on iPSC-derived retinal cell therapeutics and their road to clinical trials; a look at a MERI member’s work to develop new methods to assess vision in dogs; a …
Congratulations to Timothy Gomez for his appointment to the Retina Research Foundation M.D. Matthews Professorship!
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Timothy Gomez to the RRF M.D. Matthews Professorship. Dr. Gomez, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Neuroscience, researches visual sensory cell …