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By Ellen Barlow Bullying started early for Nicole Maines, now a college freshman, who has known since she was 2 years old that she was not the boy she was born as. She wanted to dress as Ariel the mermaid in a world that expected her to be a Batman. By age 12, her transition was complete. She took...

Dear Glycoscientists: The deadline for submission of poster abstracts to the 2018 conference on Sialic Acids has been extended to Friday March 30th. This biennial conference is being held May 10-14 in Banff, Canada. For details on the Sialoglyco2018 conference, see https://sialoglyco.com/abstract...

Last week, Harvard Medical School Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Division at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Dr. Gregory Randolph, alongside Dr. Peter Angelos of the University of Chicago and Dr. Whitney Liddy of Northwestern University, hosted the fourth...

The Research and Education Foundation of the American Head and Neck Society has announced that this year's recipient of the Chris O'Brien Traveling Fellowship is our very own, Dr. Kevin Emerick. The purpose of this fellowship is to encourage international exchange of information concerning surgical...

Celebrated award honors distinguished achievements in ophthalmology Joan W. Miller, MD, the David Glendenning Cogan Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been named the 2018...

Max is starting a PhD program at MIT EECS and is interested in how population patterns learned from biobank data can be used to predict traits, diseases and health outcomes for individuals. Welcome, Max!

Dr. Mark Shrime has been awarded the 2018 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Award for Humanism in Medicine by the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. This award recognizes members committed to practicing otolaryngology with compassionate, patient-centered care. For Dr. Shrime, his...

Dr. Ravindra Uppaluri, Chief of Otolaryngology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, has been appointed the inaugural Distinguished Chair in Otolaryngology at BWH. A leader in his field, Dr. Uppaluri has dedicated his career to the...

The proteins that form the permeation pathway of mechanosensory transduction channels in inner ear hair cells have not been definitively identified. Genetic, anatomical, and physiological evidence support a role for sensor protein, transmembrane channel-like protein (TMC) 1, in hair cell sensory...