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With half of our faculty members dedicated to scientific and clinical research, the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences never falls short of new discoveries to report on. Our researchers cover a wide range of eye care areas, ranging from basic research to cellular and molecular immunology.

  • Measure for Measure
  • Postdoctoral Trainee Receives Knight Templar Eye Foundation Career Starter Award
  • UW DOVS Researchers Attend ISER/BFF Glaucoma Symposium
  • 2019 Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin Gift of Sight Discovery Awards
  • Research to Prevent Blindness Awards Department with Unrestricted Grant
  • Hoon Lab Secures UW2020 Funding
  • Undergraduate Researchers Showcase Work
  • The WAIVS Lab: Spotlight on a Collaborative Team
  • Making WAIVS at UW-Madison
  • Reading Centers in The Era of Artificial Intelligence: 2018 Retina Times Article
  • Can precision medicine treat childhood blindness?
  • Biomanufacturing projects stepping out at UW-Madison

Measure for Measure

Jun 08 2020

“Dishonor not your eye By throwing it on any other object, Till you have heard me in my true complaint, And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!” – Isabella, Measure for Measure William Shakespeare Over…

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Postdoctoral Trainee Receives Knight Templar Eye Foundation Career Starter Award

Apr 09 2020

Philip Mzyk, PhD, a postdoctoral trainee in the Colleen McDowell Laboratory, has been awarded the Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career Starter Grant. The $70,000 award will support Dr. Mzyk’s research in the role of fibronectin extra…

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UW DOVS team at the International Society for Eye Research 2019 Meeting.

UW DOVS Researchers Attend ISER/BFF Glaucoma Symposium

Nov 10 2019

Several DOVS researchers attended the International Society for Eye Research/BrightFocus Glaucoma Symposium in Atlanta, GA, October 23-26, 2019. The symposium focused on concepts and breakthroughs in glaucoma and brought together researchers from around the world.…

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2019 Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin Gift of Sight Discovery Awards

Sep 30 2019

Colleen McDowell, PhD, and Ismail Zaitoun, PhD, have been announced as the recipients of the 2019 Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin (LEBW) Gift of Sight Discovery Awards. This internal competition is open to UW Department…

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Research to Prevent Blindness Awards Department with Unrestricted Grant

Jun 13 2019

The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has been granted an Unrestricted Grant by Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) in the amount of $115,000 a year to support eye research conducted by…

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Hoon Lab Secures UW2020 Funding

May 16 2019

The Hoon Research Laboratory, led by Mrinalini Hoon, PhD, assistant professor, has been awarded $500,000 by the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative Cohort for the project, “Imaging the Third Dimension at the Nanometer Resolution.” The award…

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Undergraduate Researchers Showcase Work

May 08 2019

Nine undergraduate students working in DOVS-associated laboratories this past semester for Introductory Biology 152 presented posters of their work at the Undergraduate Mentored Research Poster Session on April 30, 2019. Students, titles and their mentors…

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The WAIVS Lab: Spotlight on a Collaborative Team

May 02 2019

In January 2018, DOVS invited Betsy Rolland to give a presentation about team science at the departmental research retreat. Rolland, then the assistant director of Population Sciences for the UW Carbone Cancer Center, recalls the enthusiasm…

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Making WAIVS at UW-Madison

Apr 18 2019

a New Way of Imaging One of the most exciting new projects in vision research at UW-Madison is a groundbreaking group collaboration among the McPherson Eye Research Institute, the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,…

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Reading Centers in The Era of Artificial Intelligence: 2018 Retina Times Article

Mar 13 2019

Barbara Blodi, MD, professor and medical director of the Fundus Photograph Reading Center (FPRC), and Amitha Domalpally, MD, research director of the FPRC were recently panelists for the Retina Times article, “Exploring the Role of…

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Can precision medicine treat childhood blindness?

Jan 25 2019

Using stem cells, gene therapy to correct errors in retinal cells A research team at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has shown that two novel approaches to treating an inherited…

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Biomanufacturing projects stepping out at UW-Madison

Dec 13 2018

Human skin cells (pink) migrating upon a medical device (green) that was manufactured from a parsley leaf. Plant-derived devices are being developed into implants for surgical wound healing with help from the Forward BIO Institute. GIANLUCA…

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