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Lois E. H. Smith ( Boston Children's Hospital) received the 2015 Heed-Gutman Award from the Society of Heed Fellows at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 14, 2015. The prestigious Heed-Gutman Award is given annually to a former Heed Fellow from the...

Contact: Suzanne Day suzanne_day@meei.harvard.edu617-573-3897 BOSTON – Magali Saint-Geniez, PhD , has been awarded a Dolly Green Special Scholar Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) in the amount of $25,000 over two years for her project, "Roles of metabolism, oxidative stress and PGC-1...

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Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH appeared in a short video about Laura Dewey Bridgman who attended the Perkins School for the Blind in the 1800s and is the first known deaf-blind person to be successfully educated in the United States. She learned tactile sign language through her teacher, Dr. Samuel...

The remarkable story of Charles L. Schepens, MD, is featured in the June 2015 issue of EyeWorld: The Newsmagazine of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. Dr. Schepens is widely known as the Father of Modern Retinal Surgery and the founder of what is now the Schepens Eye Research...

Louis Pasquale, MD of Mass. Eye and Ear's Glaucoma Service and Thomas Merrill, OD, optician and manager of Mass. Eye and Ear Optical Services, were quoted in an article on protecting eyes from sun damage. Dr. Pasquale stressed the danger of reflective surfaces, such as water or snow, to eyes, and...

Boston, MA Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute have reconstructed an ancient virus that is highly effective at delivering gene therapies to the liver, muscle, and retina. This discovery, published July 30 in Cell Reports, could potentially be used to design...

With the Boston ECHO Course only a week away, we are busy preparing for the weekend long course and excited to meet and welcome everyone who is planning to come!