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Findings published in the American Journal of Pathology offer new directions for treatment of patients with Fuchs’ Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy (FECD) Boston, Mass. — Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear have, for the first time, identified rapidly proliferating cells (known as “neural crest...

Attracting more than 330 alumni, faculty, and trainees, the 2016 HMS Ophthalmology Annual Meeting and Alumni Reunion offered an array of continuing medical education (CME) events as well as opportunities for networking and reconnecting with classmates. Most attendees were from the New England and...

Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, Pawan Sinha, PhD, Michael Young, PhD, and Joan W. Miller, MD, FARVO The first Symposium on Ocular Regeneration: Cell Therapy and Regeneration in the Retina, held on October 23, 2014, drew over 150 participants from the United States and abroad. Co-chaired by Michael Young...

Faculty Recognition Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD, received a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and National Institute of Aging/National Institutes of Health in the amount of $1,016,301 over five years for his project, "Exploring the Role of Aging in...

A workshop in 2D transesophageal echocardiography was successfully conducted for physicians from the department of anesthesiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on October 15th-16th.

Congratulations to Harvard Ophthalmology faculty who were recognized as one of “ Boston’s Top Doctors 2016,” by Boston Magazine and/or were named in 2016 as a “ Top Ophthalmologists in Boston ,” by Castle Connolly .

We're proud to announce that Dr. Mahmood and the Echo Lab Team successfully conducted another session of our Interactive Hands-On 3D TEE Workshop on 3-4 December, 2016 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston for the cardiac anesthesia team from Johns Hopkins University. It is the only hands...

Upneet Bains, MD, has been named the 2016-2017 Ruthanne and Richard Simmons Glaucoma Fellow in the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology. This annual award was established in 2011 in recognition of two glaucoma physicians who were Harvard Ophthalmology graduates: the late Dr. Ruthanne...

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Treating donor tissue with a special cocktail of molecules improves outcomes and promotes survival of high-risk corneal transplants Boston, Mass. — Treating donor corneas with a cocktail of molecules prior to transplanting to a host may improve survival of grafts and, thus, outcomes in high-risk...