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Congratulations to Maria Saraf for being selected to present her research titled, “Decreased Myocardial Recovery Due To Oxidative Stress in Diabetics: Alterations in MAPK Pathway and PGC-1α” at the Research Assistant Learning Initiative (RALI) Mini-Grand Rounds at BIDMC. Keep up the good work!

Alexander Woltersom gave a Junior Session Oral Presentation on the research project titled: “Another Approach to Analyze the Dynamics of the Tricuspid Valve Annulus” at the 35 th Annual International Symposium: Clinical Update in Anesthesiology, Surgery and Perioperative Medicine Meeting held...

Congratulations to the Valve Research Team for presenting their research at the 6th annual HMS Surgery Research Day. Special shoutout to Maria Saraf for being one of 16 people who had podium presentations and for receiving the 'Excellence in Surgery Research' award! The rest of the team presented...

Survival of mass extinctions helps to explain near indestructible properties of hospital "superbugs" Boston, Mass. — Leading hospital “superbugs,” known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years — about the time when animals were first crawling onto land (and well...

Dr. Richard Cummings was featured in an article in the Spring/Summer 2017 Volume 7, No. 1 of the Inside Surgery Newsletter. The article appears on page 19 of the issue, and is titled "Using Glycobiology to Stop Inflammation".

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 dry form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the...

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 February 27, 2016. Dr. Miller is an internationally recognized expert on retinal disorders...

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 that standard field nonmydriatic fundus photography and nonmydriatic ultrawide field imaging similarly...

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 model. They have also shown that blocking one of the factors, TNFa, leads to a significant decrease in...

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 Vein Occlusion (RVO) - Revelations of the anti-VEGF Trials," today, Friday, April 15, 2016 at the New...