Jason Comander, MD, PhD, received a Foundation Fighting Blindness Enhanced Career Development Award in the amount of $510,000 over three years.

Meredith Gregory-Ksander, PhD, received a grant from ONL...

Claes H. Dohlman, MD, PhD, and Joan W. Miller, MD, were appointed honorary Heed Fellows.

C. Stephen Foster, MD, Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, was included in the "America's Best...

Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School glaucoma researcher awarded funding by the BrightFocus Foundation. 

Boston, Mass. — The BrightFocus Foundation recently honored Meredith Gregory-Ksander, PhD...

Anthony Adamis, MD; Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD; Claes Dohlman, MD, PhD; Evangelos Gragoudas, MD; Martine Jager, MD, PhD; and Joan W. Miller, MD, rank among the top 100 most influential people in...

Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair of Centers of Excellence, will receive the 2016 Ernst H. Bárány Prize from the International Society of Eye Research (ISER). The...

A complication associated with bone marrow transplantation, graft-versus-host-disease occurs when a transplanted immune system attacks certain parts of a host’s body, and may cause severe dry eye and...

David M. Brown, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, will present the inaugural Joan W. Miller Lecture, entitled "Pathophysiology of Retinal...

Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School have identified inflammatory factors that contribute to optic nerve damage following keratoprosthesis (KPro) implantation in a mouse...

Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School neuro-ophthalmologist and researcher awarded funding by the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. 


Joseph F. Rizzo III, MD...

Mass. Eye and Ear researchers describe, for the first time, an association between a defective myogenic response of blood vessels in the retina and early, accelerated development of retinopathy in...

Joseph F. Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was selected for the 2015-2016 HMS Young Mentor Award, which recognizes faculty who are in...

In a study comparing imaging techniques used in an ocular telehealth program, Paolo Silva, MD, Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the Joslin Diabetes Center’s Beetham Eye Institute found...

The free, full-text of the 2015 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)/Champalimaud Award Lecture, “VEGF: From Discovery to Therapy,” is now available online. Joan W. Miller, MD...

Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, FARVO, the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was selected for the prestigious HMS William Silen...

Joan W. Miller, MD, Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was appointed Treasurer of The Macula Society as of...

Findings could eventually lead to first non-surgical therapies and treatments for FECD. 

BOSTON -- Researchers at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear have shown a link between...

The title of ARVO Fellow is an honor established to recognize current ARVO members for their individual accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the Association. ARVO Fellows serve as role...

In February 2016, Reza Dana, MD, MPH, MSc, Vice Chair for Academic Programs for the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology, and Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service...

Martine Jager, MD, PhD, was promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology at Leiden University in the Netherlands on January 1, 2016. Her inaugural lecture will take place on April 25, 2016, at Leiden...

Dong Feng Chen, PhD,  received a National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute R01 grant in the amount of $2,462,500 over five years for her project, "The molecular basis underlying optic...

A phase I/II clinical trial at Massachusetts Eye and Ear found that some patients taking high doses of atorvastatin (cholesterol-lowering medication) had complete resolution of lipid deposits in the...

Lisa Cowan's, MD, PhD, paper, "Introducing a new surgical technology: Controversies in femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery and impact on resident surgical training," published in the Fall...

The Office of Global Surgery and Health recently coordinated the second faculty visit to Haiti State University Hospital in Port-au-Prince to work with the residency program there. Roberto Pineda II...