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Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—affiliates of Harvard Ophthalmology and members of Mass General Brigham—today announced progress towards the testing and development of an experimental vaccine called AAVCOVID, a novel gene-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV2...

Nine out of 22 Heed Fellowships for AY2020-21 were awarded to current and incoming Harvard Ophthalmology trainees. This postgraduate fellowship is one of the most prestigious honors for ophthalmology trainees who are pursuing academic careers in ophthalmic patient care, education, and research...

Ocular Technologies, co-founded by Chief Resident Grayson Armstrong, MD, MPH, and MIT students Brett Sternfield and Zona Liu, has won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition for its development of a universal slit lamp protection shield. The protection shields have been deployed throughout Mass...

Celebrated award honors distinguished achievements in ophthalmology Joan W. Miller, MD, the David Glendenning Cogan Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been named the 2018...

In a first step toward cracking the genetics of common strabismus, Elizabeth C. Engle, MD; David Hunter, MD, PhD; Mary C. Whitman, MD, PhD; and chief orthoptist Sarah MacKinnon contributed to a study, published in IOVS, that identified significant gene associations in strabismus and suggested a...

On November 30, several faculty members participated in the New England Ophthalmological Society (NEOS) meeting held at the Back Bay Event Center. Michael Yoon, MD, moderated the morning session, Iatrogenic Complications—Neuro-Ophthalmology and Oculoplastics. This session included talks by Linda...

Qin Liu, MD, PhD, received a Sponsored Research Agreement award from Casebia Therapeutics in the amount of $721,702 over two years from her project, "Gene editing for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa." Hajirah Saeed, MD, received a K23 grant from the National Institutes of Health in the...

Boston, Mass. — Patricia A. D’Amore, Ph.D., MBA, the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Research, and Director of the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear has been elected to the American Academy of...

Chair of Harvard Ophthalmology will receive the 2018 Charles L. Schepens, MD/AAO Award and the Gertrude D. Pyron Award at upcoming meetings Joan W. Miller, MD, the David Glendenning Cogan Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts...

Congratulations to Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and alumni who are recognized in Boston magazine’s 2020 Top Doctors list. Physicians are selected by their peers via an online nomination process established by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a healthcare research and information company. Boston...