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Congratulations to our faculty and alumni who will be reconized by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) for their outstanding contributions to vision research, education, and service at the Academy's 2020 Virtual Meeting this weekend. John H. Kempen, MD, MPH, PhD, MHS, to Receive Humanitarian...

On November 7, C. Stephen Foster, MD, alumnus and Professor of Ophthalmology, Part-time was recognized for his lifetime contributions to the field of ophthalmology with the virtual unveiling of his official portrait at Mass Eye and Ear. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Foster pioneered the use of...

It is with heartfelt sadness that we announce that Frederick A. Jakobiec, MD, DSc, passed away peacefully at the age of 78 on November 14, 2020. An international leader in eye pathology and the former Chair of Harvard Ophthalmology and Chief of Mass Eye and Ear Department of Ophthalmology, Dr...

David M. Wu, MD, PhD, the Joan Whitten Miller Retina Scholar at Mass Eye and Ear and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, is a 2021 recipient of the Edward N. & Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation Awards Program in Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Research. The two...

Patricia D'Amore, PhD, MBA, the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research at Harvard Ophthalmology, has been awarded the 2020 Earl P. Benditt Award from the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO) in...

Mass. Eye and Ear postdoctoral research fellow Caitlin Collin, PhD, was awarded a Career Starter Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. The grant will provide $70,000 of support for Dr. Collin’s research on the development of gene editing approaches for ABCA4-associated Stargardt disease...

Dan Gong, MD, has been honored with the 2020 Robert Brockhurst Academic Development Award. This award provides essential support to clinical or research retina fellows by enabling them to attend and present at national conferences. Dr. Gong, who previously served as Ophthalmology Chief Resident at...

Zhengping (Ping) Hu, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, was awarded a Competitive Renewal Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.The grant will provide $70,000 of support for Dr. Hu’s research on endomucin as a potential...

Recently we published in Cell Chemical Biology a method to produce glycopeptide libraries in small scale titled: " Parallel Glyco-SPOT Synthesis of Glycopeptide Libraries", The method utilizes a filter paper as the solid support to build a library of glycopeptides in parallel to produce microgram...

Inspired by the new book Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed, HMS Office of Communications have teamed up with us to find any HMS/HSDM postdocs out there who have Science Tattoos they would like to share! Do you have a tattoo related in some way to your research or medical work? The HMS...