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Dr. Gregory Randolph, Harvard Medical School Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Division at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has joined the Internal Liaison Committee at ENT & Audiology News. ENT & Audiology News is a powerful communicative tool within the global...

Dear Glycoscientists, On behalf of the members of the Scientific Advisory Board, I invite you to attend the next biennial conference on the Biology, Biochemistry and Chemistry of Sialic Acids, Sialoglyco2018. The meeting will be held May 10-14, 2018 in Banff, Alberta, which is located in the...

The Alcon Foundation Board renewed a grant in support of the Alcon Research Scholar program in the amount of $230,850 over three years. The renewal is for July 1, 2019 -June 30, 2022. The objective of the Alcon Research Scholar position which is to provide protected time for young clinician...

The Harvard Medical School Department of Otolaryngology had excellent representation this week at the 41st Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) in San Diego. Our faculty contributed 142 presentations, several of which earned very prominent positions on the...

By Savannah Young Back in the 1980s, when Mark Schuster was completing an adult neurology rotation at a Harvard teaching hospital, a woman was brought to the emergency room with urinary incontinence and other symptoms, as well as signs of a herniated disc, including a confirmatory myelogram. She...

By Lauren Massey This June, HMS and HSDM joined people around the state and the world in marking LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Pride Month. The Schools' newly formed LGBT Advisory Committee created a schedule of events to celebrate Pride Month, educate the community about important...

Boston, Mass. — Luk H. Vandenberghe, PhD, Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded a Nelson Trust Award for Retinitis Pigmentosa by Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) in the...

From May 1 st to May 5 th, more than 11,000 people attended the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2016 Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. Eye and vision researchers from more than 75 countries presented their current research, discussed emerging technologies, and strategized...

The title of ARVO Fellow is an honor established to recognize current ARVO members for their individual accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the Association. ARVO Fellows serve as role models and mentors for individuals pursuing careers in vision and ophthalmology research and help...

New research findings may lead to development of new therapies to delay or prevent the development of diabetic eye disease. Boston, Mass. — Researchers from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear have shown that a slight increase in transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β)...