Tag: 2025

Congratulations to Christine Sorenson, winner of a Dean’s Research Staff Award!

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Dean’s Research Staff Awards honor outstanding contributions by research staff working in research laboratories. In 2025, the inaugural year of the awards, the award recipients were selected by a subcommittee of the Basic Sciences Strategic Leadership Committee. Four awards were given out to research staff …

Vision Research Update 2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2025 Vision Research Update! The talk, which was given by Dr. David Gamm, covered the Institute’s recent work on inherited retinal disease and age-related macular degeneration and included a Q&A session where members of the public could ask any questions they had on vision research and …

McPherson ERI Spring 2025 InSights is out!

The latest issue of InSights, the McPherson ERI’s bi-annual newsletter, features articles on treating inherited retinal diseases, the road to whole eyeball transplants, making pig retinal cells to advance eye treatments, and MERI’s new Grant Accelerator Program!