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Mass Eye and Ear researchers Dr. Kristina Simonyan and Dr. Davide Valeriani were awarded a grant from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University to organize a virtual seminar on September 10-11, 2020, which explored Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for transforming the...

This paper, " Mixed-model association for biobank-scale datasets" (Loh et al. 2018 Nat Genet), explores best practices for genome-wide association analyses in very large cohorts.

A recent article published in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery showed evidence that 1 in 7 children in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have signs of hearing loss that could be attributed to noise exposure from portable music players (PMPs). The association of PMP use with hearing loss has...

Laura de Lima Xavier, MD, presented her latest study on environmental factors for developing spasmodic dysphonia, which showed that stressors influencing the sensory feedback from the larynx and upper respiratory tract represent major risk factors and are associated with abnormal cortical...

Zhongxiao (Iris) Wang, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, recevied a $65,000 Pediatric Ophthalmology Career-Starter Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. With support from this award, Dr. Wang will work under the mentorship of Jing Chen, PhD, to...

Rachel M. Huckfeldt, MD, PhD, has been selected to receive a Career Development Award from Foundation Fighting Blindness. The award, which is given to two junior clinical investigators who are studying retinal degenerative diseases, will provide $375,000 of support over five years. Dr. Huckfeldt is...

M. Charles Liberman, PhD, the Harold F. Schuknecht Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at Harvard Medical School (HMS), has recently announced his decision to step down from his leadership positions as director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories (EPL) and as vice chair for Basic...

Po-Ru Loh has been awarded the International Society for Computational Biology's Overton Prize for outstanding accomplishment by an early to mid-career scientist in the field of computational biology. A big thank-you to all of the mentors, collaborators, and trainees who contributed to the work...

Cris Jacoba, MD, the Chief Retina Fellow at Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, was one of four winners of the 2021 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) EyeWiki® Resident and Fellows-in-Training contest for his contributing article "Diabetic Macular Ischemia."Dr. Jacoba is invited to...

Daisy Shu, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, was awarded the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2021 Emerging Advocate Award. This award recognizes ARVO members who have made efforts to incorporate advocacy as part of...