Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Congratulations to Associate Professor Xin Huang, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Huang’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Neural Mechanisms Underlying Perceptual Organization.’ This project investigates how the visual system selectively integrates local visual elements into a coherent object while segregating different objects from one another based on visual …
Congratulations to Associate Professor Donna Neumann, one of our latest recipients of the MERI Grant Summit Program (GSP) Award! Prof. Neumann’s winning research proposal was entitled ‘Inhibiting repair of the Herpes Simplex Virus genome for therapeutic effect.’ This project investigates the role of cellular single-strand DNA damage repair in the repair of nicks and gaps in HSV-1 …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is excited to announce our newest funding opportunity, the Grant Accelerator Program (GAP)! Supported by the Alice McPherson Endowment Fund for the Visual Sciences, the Van Vreede McPherson ERI Greatest Needs Fund, the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund, and additional donors to the McPherson ERI, the Grant Accelerator Program …
Prof. Akihiro Ikeda Dept. of Medical Genetics, SMPH Timothy William Trout Professor in Eye Research Congratulations to MERI member Prof. Akihiro Ikeda (Dept. of Medical Genetics, SMPH; Timothy William Trout Professor in Eye Research) on receiving an NIH NEI grant for his project “Role of mitochondrial dynamics in rod photoreceptor cells”! Prof. Ikeda’s study will …