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Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai, ERI member and professor of medical microbiology and immunology, has received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on symbiosis and evolutionary selection. Often characterized as "midcareer" awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. For 2009, 180 fellowships were awarded to artists, scientists, and scholars from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants. Read More Here
The UW Eye Research Institute (ERI) is pleased to announce the second round of its research grant competition! Eye Research Institute members are invited to apply for funding under the Rapid Response Initiative. Read More Here.
Due to current Challenge Grant opportunity deadlines and demands, the Eye Research Institute has extended the submission deadline for Rapid Response Initiative Grant letters of intent and applications.
Letters of intent can now be submitted until June 15, 2009.
Full grant applications must be submitted by July 1, 2009.
[Start date for funded grants will thus be September 1, 2009.]
*If you have already submitted a letter of intent, you do not need to submit another. Your full grant application can be submitted at any time from now until July 1, 2009.
The UW Eye Research Institute was featured on WUWM's Lake Effect show on Monday, March 23, 2009. Read More Here
Aimee Arnoldussen, ERI member and neuroscientist at Wicab, Inc., is featured in a story about the BrainPort device in the NIH Record as part of the National Eye Institute's 40th birthday celebration.Read More Here
We invite you to explore the upcoming Perception Conference co-sponsored by the Visual Culture Center (L&S) and the Eye Research Institute (SMPH). Join us for the keynote lecture on Friday, February 12 and/or for the research colloquium, panel presentations, and workshops on February 13. ERI member participants/presenters include Aimee Arnoldussen, Michele Basso, Barbara Blodi, Jill Casid, Shiela Reaves, and Brad Postle.
There is no cost for conference attendance, but registration is required. Registration info is currently online at the UW Office of Human Resource Development site:
https://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/OHRDCatalogPortal/Default.aspx?tabid=29&CourseKey=23583
For full conference description and schedule, Read More Here.
We are excited to announce the recipients of the first Eye Research Institute Rapid Response Initiative grant awards! This program is designed to support UW vision scholars who have a pressing need for immediate funding to pursue a critical piece of research within a short timeframe, to accelerate work in an area with great competition for a "first" discovery, or to jump-start work on an innovative project that may be funded in a future federal grant cycle. The five projects selected for support establish new collaborations, bringing scientists together from different disciplines and perspectives to study retinal and related vision diseases. Each project will be awarded $30,000 for research from January through December 2009. Investigators, collaborators, and project descriptions follow. Read More Here
The School of Medicine and Public Health has created the Daniel M. Albert Chair Read More Here
The UW Eye Research Institute seminar series opened this fall. A schedule of the 08-09 seminars is available here (link to pdf).
The UW Eye Research Institute (ERI) is pleased to announce its first research grant competition! Eye Research Institute members are invited to apply for funding under the Rapid Response Initiative.Read More Here