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Tianxi Wang, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Ye Sun Laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital, is the recipient of a Career Starter Research Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. Dr. Wang received a one-year, 70,000 grant to support his project “Inflammatory signals from...

Dear postdocs at Harvard Medical School and its affiliates: A research study is conducted to examine postdoctoral scholars’ life balance, health and well-being. We seek the participation of current postdocs in Massachusetts from any discipline. Participation in this research will involve responding...

Maxwell Sherman's paper on modeling somatic mutation rates to uncover cancer drivers ( Sherman*, Yaari*, Priebe* et al. 2022 Nat Biotech) is now published -- congratulations, Max! This work, a collaboration with Bonnie Berger's group at MIT, developed a deep-learning model to predict cancer-specific...

Gillian R. Diercks, MD, MPH, and Eleni M. Rettig, MD, both Instructors in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at Harvard Medical School, have been named recipients of 2022 Eleanor and Miles Shore Development Awards. The awards are a part of the 27th annual Eleanor and Miles Shore Development...

Nazlee Zebardast, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Glaucoma Imaging at Mass Eye and Ear, is one of the 2022 honorees for the Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award. This award—given through The Mass General Center for Faculty Development...

We're very excited to share our latest work at ASHG this October! Ronen Mukamel and Margaux Hujoel will present platform talks describing strong associations of structural variants with heritable traits and diseases that were revealed by statistical haplotype-sharing models. Ronen and Margaux were...

Jerry Cavallerano, OD, PhD, an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, will be honored with the 2022 William Feinbloom Award at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in October. This award is presented to an individual who has made a distinguished and significant...

Cris Jacoba, MD, a clinical research fellow at Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, placed second in the Rabb-Venable Excellence in Ophthalmology Program in the Resident/Fellow category for his paper "Automated machine learning models for diabetic retinopathy screening using handheld...

Wentworth-Douglass Hospital teamed up with retina specialists at Mass Eye and Ear to launch a new Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) program that allows infants to remain local while receiving specialized eye exams. ROP affects retinal development in babies who are born prematurely, specifically...

Faculty from Boston Children's Hospital, including Gena Heidary, MD, PhD, Eric Gaier, MD, PhD, and David Hunter, MD, PhD, are working with their clinical trainees and the hospital's Applied Engineering team to develop a 3-D printed surgical eye simulator. Know as the "Strabismus Trainer," the device...