Profile An audacious goal: A collaboration to cure blindness with retinal cell transplants Read about HWNI faculty member Teresa Puthussery’s research, and what motivates her and her team.Rachel HendersonFebruary 3, 2023
Announcement Groundbreaking collaborative research program will explore common characteristics of glaucoma, Alzheimer’s HWNI member Karthik Shekhar is one of four investigators collaborating on this new initiative.KailyssJuly 28, 2022
News Breaking the mold Learn about Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics, led by HWNI member Michael Silver.KailyssMay 4, 2022
Research Discovery Success treating night blindness in dogs could lead to human gene therapy HWNI member John Flannery and Neuroscience PhD alum Leah Byrne are co-authors on the study.KailyssMarch 25, 2022
Research Discovery Antabuse may help revive vision in people with progressive blinding disorders The Kramer lab and collaborators found that the drug improves vision in vision-impaired mice.KailyssMarch 23, 2022
Research Discovery Research shines a light on development of the visual cortex during the critical period after birth A new study from the Shekhar lab, in collaboration with the Zipursky lab at UCLA.KailyssJanuary 24, 2022
Research Discovery Like our social media feeds, our brains take a little while to update Study from the Whitney lab has uncovered a lag in our perception of visual stimuli.KailyssJanuary 13, 2022
Announcement Puthussery awarded funding from the National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative HWNI member Teresa Puthussery is part of a new project to accelerate photoreceptor replacement therapy.Natalie TerranovaOctober 20, 2021
Research Discovery Despite dramatic differences in shape, these direction-sensing retinal neurons have similar synaptic organization New study by Neuroscience PhD alum Malak El-Quessny and HWNI faculty member Marla Feller.Natalie TerranovaSeptember 9, 2021