Unique adaptive optics provides the ability to visualize the cells of the human eye. Joseph Carroll, Ph.D. and Kim Stepien, M.D. use adaptive optics at The Medical College of Wisconsin to see photoreceptors at a cellular level and identify cells involved in eye disease
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May 15 - The National Biomedical Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) has received a five-year, $6 million renewal grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. The EPR Center was established in 1976, and has been continuously funded since. It is classified as a Biomedical Technology Resource Center, and is one of eight federally-designated research centers at MCW.
May 13 - James S. Hyde, PhD, the James S. Hyde Professor of Biophysics and Director of the National Biomedical EPR Center at MCW, is one of this year’s Eureka Awards presented by the Milwaukee Business Journal. Milwaukee Business Journal
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Apr 18 - The Department of Ophthalmology is presenting the final Vision Science Distinguished Lecture of the 2012-2013 series on Monday, April 22, from 12-1 p.m. in the lower level of the Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Eye Institute. Jeffrey L. Goldberg, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Research at the Shiley Eye Center at the University of California – San Diego, will give a presentation titled, Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival and Regeneration.
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