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Congratulations to our residents who have matched with outstanding fellowship programs: Liza Cohen, MD, Orbital and Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery at The Stein Eye Institute, UCLA Mohammad Dahrouj, MD, PhD, Vitreoretinal Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear/HMS Danny Diaz, MD, Vitreoretinal Surgical Fellow at...

OCU400, a novel gene therapy platform developed by Neena Haider, PhD, Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, and licensed to biopharmaceutical company Ocugen, Inc., has been granted orphan drug...

Deborah K. VanderVeen, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a clinician scientist at Boston Children's Hospital, has been elected to the prestigious American Ophthalmological Society for her distinguished contributions to the field, particularly her work in...

Paulo Bispo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Scientist at Mass Eye and Ear, received the 2022 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Mallinckrodt Uveitis Research Fellowship. This $45,000 fellowship award will fund Dr. Bispo's...

Leo Kim, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Monte J. Wallace Ophthalmology Chair in Retina at Mass Eye and Ear, and John Miller, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at HMS and Director of Retinal Imaging at Mass Eye and Ear, were selected to...

Inês Laíns, MD, PhD, a PGY-4 resident, is a 2021 recipient of a VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research Award. This award will support her research project "Swept-source OCT and OCTA predictors of postoperative visual outcomes after macula-off retinal detachment."

Janey Wiggs, MD, PhD, the Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair of Clinical Research at Harvard Medical School, was named a Glaucoma Visionary by Glaucoma Today. An internationally renowned medical geneticist, glaucoma specialist, and clinician scientist, Dr. Wiggs studies...

Michael S. Gilmore, PhD, Sir William Osler Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Chief Scientific Officer at Mass Eye and Ear, recently received a five-year, $11,409,360 Program Project (P01) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Allergy and...

Catherine Liu, MD, a cornea fellow at Mass Eye and Ear, was selected as the Abelson Family Fellow in Cornea at Mass Eye and Ear for the academic year 2021-2022. This fellowship was established by Dr. Mark Abelson and his family in 2011 to support new clinical research and translational research...

Deeba Husain, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, received the 2022 Harvard Ophthalmology Excellence in Mentoring Award for her dedication to mentoring both clinical and research junior faculty and trainees. An accomplished retina surgeon, clinician scientist, and...