Search

Search results

1198 results found

U.S. medical schools boost LGBTQ students, doctor training

News: February 21, 2020

Aliya Feroe recalls the flustered OB-GYN who referred her to another physician after learning she identified as queer. For Rhi Ledgerwood, who was designated female at birth, identifies as trans and doesn’t have sex with men, it was a doctor advising about condoms and pregnancy prevention. For Tim...

Advancing Novel Experimental Gene-based COVID-19 Vaccine, AAVCOVID

News: May 05, 2020

Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—affiliates of Harvard Ophthalmology and members of Mass General Brigham—today announced progress towards the testing and development of an experimental vaccine called AAVCOVID, a novel gene-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV2...

Trainees Receive Heed Fellowships

News: May 13, 2020

Nine out of 22 Heed Fellowships for AY2020-21 were awarded to current and incoming Harvard Ophthalmology trainees. This postgraduate fellowship is one of the most prestigious honors for ophthalmology trainees who are pursuing academic careers in ophthalmic patient care, education, and research...

Grayson Armstrong, MD, MPH, Wins MIT Entrepreneurship Competition

News: June 16, 2020

Ocular Technologies, co-founded by Chief Resident Grayson Armstrong, MD, MPH, and MIT students Brett Sternfield and Zona Liu, has won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition for its development of a universal slit lamp protection shield. The protection shields have been deployed throughout Mass...

Boston's Top Doctors 2020

News: January 07, 2020

Congratulations to Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and alumni who are recognized in Boston magazine’s 2020 Top Doctors list. Physicians are selected by their peers via an online nomination process established by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a healthcare research and information company. Boston...

Harvard Brain Science Initiative: Neuroscientist of the Week - Dr. Kristina Simonyan

News: January 17, 2020

Harvard’s diverse neuroscience community — hundreds of basic researchers and physician-scientists, are engaged in the process of discovery across campuses and disciplines in Cambridge and the Greater Boston Area. Dr. Simonyan was features as the Neuroscientist of the Week #60. Read more here.

The Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital: New Director of Transgender Research

News: January 28, 2020

The Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Welcomes Sari Reisner, Sc.D., Director of Transgender Research in the Section of Men’s Health, Aging and Metabolism, in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension The Department of Medicine is pleased to welcome Sari L...

Meet the Clinical Research Team

Page

Program Overview

Page

SHURP is a ten-week summer research program primarily for college students belonging to groups that are under-represented in the sciences. SHURP presently has over 600 alumni from colleges across the country, and over 90% are continuing or planning to continue training and careers in the sciences...

Research

Page

Summer research opportunities will be available in a variety of biological and biomedical sciences including (but not limited to): cellular and developmental biology, cell cycle regulation, stem cell biology, studies of blood cells, cancer biology, endocrinology, immunology, microbiology, molecular...