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On June 13, Harvard Ophthalmology hosted a successful reimagined Annual and Alumni Virtual Meeting with nearly 300 faculty and alumni attendees. With a central theme of I nnovation and Adaptation During COVID-19 and Beyond, the event focused on the department's creative response to the pandemic and...

Professor of Ophthalmology Thaddeus Dryja, MD, received this year's Simmons Lessell Excellence in Education Award Presented during our clinical graduation ceremony on June 18, the award recognizes faculty who have made—and continue to make—sustained and profound contributions to education—just like...

Recent research suggested that COVID-19 may lead to changes to the retina such as OCT reflective lesions of inner retina. However, a new editorial authored by a team of retina specialists, including Harvard Ophthalmology faculty Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology...

Mohammad "Mo" Dahrouj, MD, PhD, a second-year clinical vitreoretinal fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear, has been awarded the 2020 Retina Patient Care Award. The award is presented to a clinical fellow who demonstrates a superior commitment to caring for patients during the course of the year. Not awarded...

Clockwise from the top left: 1) Dr. Lloyd Paul Aiello, Director of the Beetham Eye Institute; Robert Haskell, Past-President, Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund; and Jeanne Farrow, President, Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund 2) Dr. David G. Hunter, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, Boston Children’s...

Faculty member Jennifer K. Sun, MD, MPH, has been selected by the Macula Society to receive the 2021 Young Investigator Award. This prestigious honor is awarded to an individual under 50 years of age whose work gives high promise of a notable advance in the clinical treatment of disorders of the eye...

Nakul Singh, MD, MS, a PGY-3 ophthalmology resident, received the 2020 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund his research to “characterize the biomechanics of how ERMs and test the effect of netarsudil on inhibiting contraction.” He will complete the project under...

The AAVCOVID vaccine program, a novel gene-based vaccine strategy led by Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass Eye and Ear, that utilizes an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector, was granted an...

A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Mass Eye and Ear have successfully restored vision in elderly mice by turning back the clock on their aged nerve cells in the retina to recapture their youthful function. The team used an adeno-associated virus as a vehicle to deliver into...

Alice Lorch, MD, MPH, Director of the Harvard Ophthalmology Residency Training Program, has received critical grant funding totaling more than $430,000 from Mass General Brigham's United Against Racism along with the Mass General Executive Committee on Community Health, Digital Federal Credit Union...