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Want to learn more about the science of sleep and clinical sleep medicine in the form of easy-to-read articles written by a sleep physician and researcher? Regardless if you’re a beginner of pro, this LinkedIn newsletter called Sleepletter will help you better understand why sleep is integral to...

Congratulations to Joseph F. Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, who received the 2020 Harvard Ophthalmology Excellence in Mentoring Award. Dr. Arboleda is a talented and dedicated mentor to...

Deborah K. VanderVeen, MD, an international expert and leader in pediatric cataract and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), was promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), effective March 1, 2022. An accomplished clinician scientist and Director of the Pediatric Cataract...

Hamid Motallebzadeh, PhD, an instructor in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently awarded a R21 research grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his research on using AI to automate the noninvasive...

Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH, Association Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a clinician scientist at Mass Eye and Ear, was selected to receive the Dean’s Community Service Faculty Award from HMS for his service to the Cortical/Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) Center and...

Tianxi Wang, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Ye Sun Laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital, is the recipient of a Career Starter Research Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. Dr. Wang received a one-year, 70,000 grant to support his project “Inflammatory signals from...

Dear postdocs at Harvard Medical School and its affiliates: A research study is conducted to examine postdoctoral scholars’ life balance, health and well-being. We seek the participation of current postdocs in Massachusetts from any discipline. Participation in this research will involve responding...

Maxwell Sherman's paper on modeling somatic mutation rates to uncover cancer drivers ( Sherman*, Yaari*, Priebe* et al. 2022 Nat Biotech) is now published -- congratulations, Max! This work, a collaboration with Bonnie Berger's group at MIT, developed a deep-learning model to predict cancer-specific...

Gillian R. Diercks, MD, MPH, and Eleni M. Rettig, MD, both Instructors in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at Harvard Medical School, have been named recipients of 2022 Eleanor and Miles Shore Development Awards. The awards are a part of the 27th annual Eleanor and Miles Shore Development...

Nazlee Zebardast, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Glaucoma Imaging at Mass Eye and Ear, is one of the 2022 honorees for the Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award. This award—given through The Mass General Center for Faculty Development...