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Knights Templar Eye Foundation Presents Research Grants

Instructor in Ophthalmology Emily Wiecek, OD, PhD, and research fellow Zhengping (Ping) Hu each received Career-Starter Grants from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. With support from this award, Emily will continue studying how anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia affect peripheral visual...

Harvard Ophthalmology Affiliates Benefit from Lions Grants

The Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund has awarded $700,000 in grants to support research projects led by the following faculty: Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center Paolo Silva, MD, will study computational fluid dynamics modeling of the human retinal microvasculature in order to...

Virtual Surgical Training Curriculum Goes National

Chief Resident Grayson Armstrong and 2021-22 Chief Resident Margot Weinert have spearheaded the development of a weekly virtual cataract surgical training curriculum. Each week, they tackle a topic in cataract surgery by putting together readings and videos online. The week culminates in a Zoom case...

Microglia protect sensory cells needed for vision after retinal detachment

Pictured above: Retinal microglia (green) and the retinal vasculature (magenta). Photo credit: Dong-Ho Park, M.D., Connor Lab. A research team at Massachusetts Eye and Ear has shown that microglia, the primary immune cells of the brain and retina, play a protective role in response to retinal...

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD Selected to Receive 2022 Weisenfeld Award

Faculty member Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, has been selected by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) to receive the 2022 Mildred Weisenfeld Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology in recognition of her distinguished scholarly contributions to the clinical practice of...

2022 AUPO Annual Meeting

Harvard Ophthalmology was well represented at the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO) annual meeting last month. Chair Joan W. Miller, MD, the President-elect of AUPO, served as Program Committee Chair for the five-day event. Alice Lorch, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of...