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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...

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce the Archives for Diversity and Inclusion. Building on the successes of the Archives for Women in Medicine program, the Archives for Diversity and Inclusion will expand in scope to include acquiring the research, teaching, and professional...

Boston, Mass. — Bacteria are present in just about every breath of air we take in. How the airway protects itself from infection from these bacteria has largely remained a mystery — until now. When bacteria are inhaled, exosomes, or tiny fluid-filled sacs, are immediately secreted from cells that...

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...

Double discrimination from both heterosexual and homosexual communities was a common theme mentioned by all three researchers. Sabra L. Katz-Wise, an assistant professor at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, mentioned that bisexuals are "often experiencing discrimination from...

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...

Jennifer Potter, MD, LGBT Population Health Program Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute, has been named a Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS). An announcement from the HMS LGBTQ and Allies group cited the appointment as recognition of Dr. Potter’s “hard work in LGBT health research...

Since 2011, The Jonathan F. Borus Outstanding Early Career Educator Award in medical student education has been awarded to a junior faculty member at Harvard Medical School who has demonstrated exceptional promise, initiative and commitment in the area of psychiatric education. The award is named in...

Masahiro Kanai has joined our lab for a rotation.

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of the Center for Professionalism and Peer Support at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Jo Shapiro, published an invited commentary in Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. Her piece, "We Have Enough Information to Act,"...