A recent study by the Hoon lab published in Current Biology has uncovered new modes of retinal circuit compensation and adaptation in response to impairments seen in congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB). CSNB is a retinal disease …
Publications
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 …
Researchers ‘seq’ and find a way to make pig retinal cells to advance eye treatments
In a new study published in Stem Cell Reports, the Gamm Lab partnered with researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research to develop lab-grown pig retinal organoids. They found that pig-derived photoreceptors shared many similarities with …
McPherson ERI Fall 2024 Insights is out!
In the new issue of InSights you can read about Dr. Roomasa Channa’s plan to ensure broader access to diabetic retinopathy care, and learn how Dr. Karen Schloss’s lab helps us make better decisions about …
New research in Nature Communications from the lab of MERI PI Raunak Sinha!
Congratulations to Raunak Sinha, the McPherson ERI’s David and Nancy Walsh Family Professor, for his group’s latest publication in Nature Communications! In their article, Saha et al. show that light adaptation, our visual system’s ability …