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‘This can be changed’: Verona family carries on daughter’s fight to end vision diseases

Posted on March 6, 2019

A recent story on Channel 3000 highlights the efforts by the family of Kenzi Valentyn to raise money for vision research in their daughter’s name. Waisman investigator David Gamm focuses on using stem cells to …

Posted in 2019, News, Stem Cells, VisionTagged David Gamm, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Stem Cells

Lab to clinic video: David Gamm, MD, PhD

Posted on February 8, 2019

David Gamm, director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute, and Forward Bio Institute director Bill Murphy explain how stem cell scientists at UW–Madison are working with industry to put scientific breakthroughs on the path to …

Posted in 2019, News, Stem Cells, Vision

UW researcher using stem cells to create ‘spare part’ for blindness

Posted on November 6, 2018

To mark the 20th anniversary of the stem cell discovery at UW-Madison, the Wisconsin State Journal featured a series of stories on stem cell research, highlighting the work of Waisman Center investigators David Gamm, Anita …

Posted in 2018, News, Stem Cells, VisionTagged David Gamm, Stem Cells, Vision

Years after promise of stem cells seemed to be fading, clinical trials underway

Posted on November 2, 2018

A story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reflects on the history of stem cells and its future direction. Two decades after the first stem cell breakthrough, the promising biological discovery is beginning to take steps …

Posted in 2018, News, Stem Cells, Vision, YearTagged Clinical Trials, David Gamm, Stem Cells

Scientists seek to improve quality control for genome editing therapies in the eye

Posted on October 10, 2018

Waisman Center investigator David Gamm, MD, PhD, and affiliate Krishanu Saha, PhD, are part of a team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin- Madison who were recently granted a major award from the National …

Posted in 2018, Awards and Honors, News, Stem Cells, Vision, YearTagged David Gamm, Gene Editing, Krishanu Saha, Stem Cells, Vision

Gamm’s research aims to treat blinding diseases

Posted on February 26, 2015

Inherited and acquired degenerative diseases of the retina are a significant cause of incurable vision loss worldwide. David Gamm, MD, PhD, utilizes stem cell technology to test ways to preserve or restore vision in people …

Posted in 2015, News, VisionTagged David Gamm, Vision

Family supports UW-Madison research on eye disease

Posted on November 10, 2014

When Madison attorney David Walsh learned 17 years ago that his sons have a genetic disorder that causes blindness, he went into action mode.

Posted in 2014, News, Stem Cells, VisionTagged David Gamm, Stem Cells, Vision

A Promising Sight

Posted on June 4, 2013

But the specks in the Petri dishes were the result of years of research in the laboratory of David Gamm, an ophthalmologist at the UW’s Waisman Center. And as members of the Reese family carefully cradled the dishes, they held the future of their descendants’ eyesight in their hands.

Posted in 2013, News, Rare Disorders, Stem Cells, VisionTagged Best Disease, David Gamm, Stem Cells, Vision

Cells from skin create model of blinding eye disease

Posted on November 8, 2012

For the first time, Wisconsin researchers have taken skin from patients and, using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, turned them into a laboratory model for an inherited type of macular degeneration.

Posted in 2012, News, Stem Cells, Vision

Waisman Center’s Gamm honored for retinal stem cell research

Posted on September 13, 2012

David Gamm received the Visionary Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness at the Dining in the Dark event.

Posted in 2012, Awards and Honors, News, Stem Cells, Vision
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