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Dr. Matthew Crowson Appointed a BIRT Fellow at Harvard Medical School

Matthew G. Crowson, MD, an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and an ENT surgeon in the Otology and Neurotology Division at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently appointed a Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Research Training (BIRT) Fellow at Harvard...

Dr. Gregory Randolph Elected President of International Thyroid Oncology Group

Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS, FACE, Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and director of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgical Division at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently elected president of the International Thyroid Oncology Group (ITOG). The...

New preprint on large-effect protein-coding repeat polymorphisms

We are excited to share a new preprint, " Protein-coding repeat polymorphisms strongly shape diverse human phenotypes" (Mukamel*, Handsaker* et al.), which finds that some of the largest effects of common genetic variants on human phenotypes arise from variable-number-of-tandem-repeat (VNTR)...

Fellows Recognized with Research Awards

Brian Ballios, MD, PhD, an inherited retinal degenerations fellow at Mass Eye and Ear, and Tatiana Perepelkina, MD, a pediatric medical retina fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, are both recipients of the 2020 VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research award, which will provide funding for their...

Yohei Tomita, MD, PhD, Recognized by Japanese Ophthalmological Society

Yohei Tomita, MD, PhD, a research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, is a recipient of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society’s Young Investigator Award. This award will support Dr. Tomita's research project “Petinal pathological neovascularization by Increasing FGF21 level in an aurine oxygen...

Aparna Raghuram, OD, PhD, Recognized with Career Development Award

Aparna Raghuram, OD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and an Optometrist at Boston Children’s Hospital, is the recipient of the 2021 American Academy of Optometry’s Career Development Award. This grant award provides $100,000 over two years to fund Dr. Raghuram's...

Four Faculty Join Editorial Boards

Ula V. Jurkunas, MD, Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, and Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, all Associate Professors of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, have joined the editorial board of Ophthalmology Science, the fourth major journal published by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. The online, open...

Boston Magazine Top Doctors 2021

Congratulations to the following Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and alumni who were each recognized as one of "Boston's Top Doctors 2021" by Boston magazine. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Mark C. Kuperwaser, MD Boston Children's Hospital Linda R. Dagi, MD David G. Hunter, MD, PhD Melanie A...

Starting Your Lab: Lessons on Lab Business 101

Event: "Starting Your Lab: Lessons on Lab Business 101" Our panelists will share their experiences, stories, and things you "wish you knew" about lab setup + operation and starting a faculty position. Join us as they discuss strategies for research setup + operation, the business of lab, and answer...

Hot Science Balloon

Do you want to network and collaborate with science enthusiasts from around the world? Interested in reading or writing easily digestible summaries of the latest curated research papers for the public? Or maybe want to watch interviews with Nobel Laureates and other scientists and inventors about...