Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Title: Appliance displays: accessibility challenges and proposed solutions Legend: Sample LED display containing a string of digits, each of which is a standard seven-segment digit. For each digit, our algorithm estimates its bounding box (shown in white) and then reads it aloud using text-to-speech (results in yellow). Citation: Fusco, G., Tekin, E., Giudice, N. A., …
March 03, 2016 Adityarup “Rup” Chakravorty You are hungry. You get a can from the pantry or some leftovers from the fridge, warm up the food in the microwave and sit down to eat a quick and easy meal. While that sounds straightforward to many of us, for individuals who are visually impaired or blind, …
Title: Pharmacological modulation of photoreceptor outer segment degradation in Best disease patient-derived hiPSC-RPE Legend: (a) Representative western blot analysis comparing the amount of the POS protein RHO in untreated and VPA-treated (500 µmol/l) BD hiPSC-RPE at 0 and 24 hours after POS feeding. (b) Quantification of RHO levels 24 hours after POS feeding in untreated versus …
A team of eye researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have used a custom stem cell model of a rare but blinding eye disease to test whether a commonly used drug might offer hope for treatment.
June is Vision Research Awareness Month and the Waisman Center is home to a comprehensive vision research program led by David Gamm, MD, PhD. Gamm, a Waisman Center investigator, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, and Director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute, studies human retinal development and potential therapies for retinal degenerative diseases.
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 afflicted by blinding disorders. Gamm and 160 researchers at the Waisman Center and the McPherson Eye Research Institute work to develop treatments for …
When Madison attorney David Walsh learned 17 years ago that his sons have a genetic disorder that causes blindness, he went into action mode.
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.
