Dr. Matthew J. McMahon

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Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
Pre-Clinical and Clinical Research
Senior Principal ScientistAppointed: 2004
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Mailing Address

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
12744 San Fernando Rd.
Bldg. 3
Sylmar, California 91342
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (818) 833-5084
Fax: (818) 833-5067
mm@2-sight.com
http://mattmcmahon.com/

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Experimental Psychology, 2000.
M.A., University of California, San Diego, Experimental Psychology, 1994.
B.S., University of Rochester, Optics, 1993.

Other Expertise

Peer Reviewer: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Neuron, Vision Research, Visual Neuroscience, Welcome Trust

Teaching Experience (TA): Drugs and Behavior, Logic of Perception, Sensation and Perception
NSF Summer School on Adaptive Optics, 2001, 2003

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Behavioral or Experimental Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Sensory Physiology, Vision, Visual Perception or Processing.

Additional Terms:

Retina, Retinal Imaging.

Memberships

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Optical Society of America
Society for Neuroscience
Vision Sciences Society

Honors and Awards

2002, Univ. of Rochester Center for Visual Science 23rd Symposium: Engineering the Eye, Travel Fellowship, NSF Center for Adaptive Optics
2002, Invited speaker, FASEB Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing Summer Research Conference
2000, Retina Research Foundation / Lawrence Travel Fellowship Grant, ARVO annual meeting
2000, UCSD Norman Anderson Travel Grant recipien, ARVO annual meeting
2000, Selected participant and Foundation for Fighting Blindness Travel Grant recipient, FASEB Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing Summer Research Conference
1998, Selected participant and Grass Fellowship recipient, Cold Spring Harbor course, Computational Neuroscience: Vision
1998, Selected participant and Travel Grant recipient, FASEB Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing Summer Research Conference
1995, Travel Grant and invited participant, National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on Vision
1993, The Henning Prize for outstanding achievement in Vision Science, Univ. of Rochester, Center for Visual Science
1993, NEC Research Institute Travel Grant, Princeton Lectures on Biophysics
1989-1993, Alumni Scholarship, University of Rochester

Previous Positions

2000-2004, Senior Fellow, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Biological Structure

Funding Received

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Bioengineering Research Partnership, Research/Development of Artificial Rentinas for the Blind, 2006 to 2011.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Research Service Award, Physiology of the midget pathway in primate retina, 2001 to 2004.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Predoctoral Fellow, UCSD Systems and Integrative Neurobiology Training Grant, 1997 to 2000.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Graduate Fellowship, 1993 to 1996.

Publications

  • McMahon MJ, Packer OS, Dacey DM, The classical receptive field surround of primate parasol ganglion cells is mediated primarily by a non-GABAergic pathway, The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience., 24(15), 3736-45, 2004 Abstract
  • Diller L, Packer OS, Verweij J, McMahon MJ, Williams DR, Dacey DM, L and M cone contributions to the midget and parasol ganglion cell receptive fields of macaque monkey retina, The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience., 24(5), 1079-88, 2004 Abstract
  • McMahon MJ, MacLeod DI, The origin of the oblique effect examined with pattern adaptation and masking, Journal of Vision, 3(3), 230-9, 2003 Abstract
  • McMahon MJ, MacLeod DI, Retinal contrast losses and visual resolution with obliquely incident light, Journal of the Optical Society of America A. Optics, Image Science, and Vision, 18(11), 2692-703, November 2001 Abstract
  • McMahon MJ, Lankheet MJ, Lennie P, Williams DR, Fine structure of parvocellular receptive fields in the primate fovea revealed by laser interferometry, The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience., 20(5), 2043-53, March 2000 Abstract
  • McMahon MJ, MacLeod DI, Dichromatic color vision at high light levels: red/green discrimination using the blue-sensitive mechanism, Vision Research, 38(7), 973-83, April 1998 Abstract
  • Williams DR, Artal P, Navarro R, McMahon MJ, Brainard DH, Off-axis optical quality and retinal sampling in the human eye, Vision Research, 36(8), 1103-14, April 1996 Abstract
  • Knoblauch K, McMahon MJ, Discrimination of binocular color mixtures in dichromacy: evaluation of the Maxwell-Cornsweet conjecture, Journal of the Optical Society of America A. Optics and Image Science, 12(10), 2219-29, October 1995 Abstract
  • Williams DR, Brainard DH, McMahon MJ, Navarro R, Double-pass and interferometric measures of the optical quality of the eye, Journal of the Optical Society of America A. Optics and Image Science, 11(12), 3123-35, December 1994 Abstract

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