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Learn more about McLellan lab research, profiled in the summer issue of the McPherson Eye Research Institute’s summer 2019 newsletter  

McLellan lab graduate student Kore Chan successfully defended his Masters thesis in the blistering MSC heat on July 15th.  Kore, pictured here on the Memorial Union Terrace pondering his future, will be joining the School of …

Congratulations Kazuya Oikawa, BVSc, a graduate student in the Comparative Biomedical Science Program who has been named by the McPherson Eye Research Institute as one of two recipients of the 2019  Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Trainee …

Well done Kevin Snyder (left) and Jake Nilles (right) for winning top honors in House Officer and Veterinary Student categories with excellent posters!

Dog owners and breeders can learn more about our efforts to find the genetic cause of glaucoma in Siberian Huskies here

2018 ACVO Veterinary Student Award, Sara Adelman 2018 Fight for Sight Summer Student Fellowship, Kore Chan 2018 Boehringer Ingelheim Research Award for Graduate Veterinarians, Andrew Lewin 2018 The Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate student travel award, …

Sara Adelman, a UW-Madison DVM student and MS student in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, successfully defended her MS Thesis entitled “Mapping Retinal Ganglion Cells in a Large-eyed Glaucoma Model” for her work conducted …

Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness that results from loss of neurons and glial scarring of the optic nerve. Our goal in this project is to limit damage to the optic nerve by …

  Dr. Gillian McLellan and her collaborators recently published an exciting manuscript in PLoS One entitled “A Mutation in LTBP2 Causes Congenital Glaucoma in Domestic Cats (Felis catus).” Glaucoma is a group of diseases characterized …