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Milica Margeta, MD, PhD, Receives RPB Career Development Award

Milica Margeta, MD, PhD, has been awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness 2020 Career Development Award, which will provide $300,000 of support over four years. Milica is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and member of the Mass. Eye and Ear Glaucoma Service, where she specializes in medical...

Portrait of a Pioneer

Go here to read about Dr. William Augustus Hinton, the first African American to be promoted to the rank of professor at HMS and at Harvard University.

Faculty Members Nominated for HMS Excellence in Mentoring Awards

This year, several ophthalmology faculty were nominated for Harvard Medical School (HMS) Excellence in Mentoring Awards. These prestigious awards honor exceptional mentors who are committed to helping trainees develop and advance their professional careers in basic/clinical medicine, research...

Research to Prevent Blindness 60th Anniversary

Several faculty from Mass. Eye and Ear, including Joan W. Miller, MD, Chief and Chair of Harvard Ophthalmology; Jason I. Comander, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology; and Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmolgy, participated in a special video to commemorate the...

Glaucoma Specialist Dr. David S. Friedman Receives Esteemed Honor

David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, the Albert and Diane Kaneb Chair in Ophthalmology and Director of the Glaucoma Service at Mass. Eye and Ear, has been selected by his peers to present the 2021 American Glaucoma Society Clinician-Scientist Lecture at the 2021 Annual Meeting next March. Considered one...

What can the early days of AIDS teach us about today?

Watch Dr. Marshall Forstein and Dr. Kenneth Mayer discuss the early days of AIDS, its parallels to and differences from what we're currently experiencing with COVID-19, and what we can learn and apply today. Through sharing their own expertise and discussing questions from viewers, they discuss the...

Panel of HMS LGBTQ Psychiatrists: What are you drawing upon during this time?

Watch Harvard Medical School LGBTQ faculty and residents in psychiatry discuss strategies for getting through COVID-19—for both their patients and themselves. They discuss the impact of changes to routines and living arrangements, holding onto your LGBTQ+ identity, the importance of community, and...

Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, Leads COVID-19 Vaccine Development

The AAVCOVID vaccine program, led by Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, is a unique gene-based vaccine approach for COVID-19. It uses an adeno-associated virus (AAV)—a...

Rohan Bir Singh, MD, Named Science Communication Training Fellow

Rohan Bir Singh, MD, a fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, received a 2020 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Science Communication Training Fellowship. The competitive, one-year program empowers early career scientists to communicate their complex...