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Luk Vandenberghe, PhD , Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass. Eye and Ear and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, will receive the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Outstanding New Investigator Award — one of the Society’s highest honors...

Neena Haider, PhD , Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, was invited by the American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF) to lobby Congress to increase support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Eye Institute. In March, she met with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congressmen Joe...

Po-Ru Loh will be presenting work on mosaic CNVs in clonal hematopoiesis and brain development at the Harvard Biostatistics / HMS Department of Biomedical Informatics B3D Seminar on Mon 4/30.

We are pleased to introduce the five medical students who’ve been matched to our residency program this year. We look forward to their arrival and hope all will join us in welcoming them this June. Ciersten BurksMedical School: Indiana University Harvard otolaryngology resident Christopher...

First-year Harvard Ophthalmology resident Wendy Liu, MD, PhD, received the 2018 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund her research on mechanosensitive ion channels in primary open-angle glaucoma. She will complete the project under the guidance of her mentor Janey...

The Department of Ophthalmology was, once again, well represented at this year’s Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) Imaging in the Eye Conference and Annual Meeting, held April 28 through May 3 in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 145 faculty and trainees participated as course...

Endre A. Balazs, a pioneer in viscoelastic therapeutics and a leader in hyaluronan and vitreous research, passed away on August 29th at the age of 95. Dr. Balazs had a central role in establishing what is now Schepens Eye Research Institute, and was awarded the Institute's Distinguished Alumnus...

Joan Miller was quoted in an article on the increase of AMD drugs in the past decade. September 3, 2015 Investor's Business Daily

The September 2015 issue of Eye Insights™, a clinical advisory newsletter published by Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, is now available. This issue focuses on the Boston KPro, specifically on how to manage complications associated with implantation, postoperative...

Evangelos Gragoudas, MD, presented the J. Donald M. Gass lecture at the Retina Society Annual Meeting in Paris, France on October 8, 2015. A pioneer and a world authority on the diagnosis and management of intraocular tumors and retinal disease, Dr. Gragoudas and colleagues developed the use of...