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The Postdoctoral Training Program at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear gave two awards for best scientific paper by a trainee at Fellows’ Recognition Day on June 9, 2017 – one in the category of Wet Lab and one in the category of Dry Lab. Anitha Krishnan, PhD, a...

Po-Ru Loh's abstract on clonal hematopoiesis in the UK Biobank (with key collaborator Giulio Genovese) has been selected for a plenary talk at the 2017 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) conference and as a finalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards.

Luk H. Vandenberghe, PhD, along with collaborator and lead author Rob Collin, PhD, of Radboud University Medical Center, has been selected to receive the 2017 Ed Gollob Board of Directors’ Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB). This award is presented annually in recognition of...

Findings may have significant therapeutic implications for AMD, the most common cause of elderly blindness in the developed world Boston, Mass. — A compound of specific bioactive products from a major family of enzymes reduced the severity of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a preclinical...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear’s P30 core grant competitive renewal (PI: Pablo Argüeso, PhD) at $3,940,010 over five years. This critical funding supports four shared core resources at 20 Staniford Street: Animal Resource, Flow...

Jatin Arora will be working with our lab for the next three months. Jatin is a PhD Scholar with the Lenz Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany.

Michael A. Sandberg, PhD retired from Mass. Eye and Ear at the end of September. Dr. Sandberg was recruited by Dr. Eliot Berson to the Berman-Gund Laboratory for the Study of Retinal Degenerations and the Electroretinography Service (now the Inherited Retinal Disorders Service) at Massachusetts Eye...

Boston 25 News presented a snapshot of TRACTS and the work we have accomplished thus far. Click here to read the full story.

Sushil Upadhyayula joins our lab thanks to the Harvard Research Scholar Initiative. Sushil is a student at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, and he will be working with Kamil Slowikowski on analysis of single cell RNA-seq data from CD4 T cells.

The Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund awarded 2017-18 grants to several Harvard Ophthalmology affiliates and Boston-area research institutions. Each institution received $160,000, which supported the following projects: Mass. Eye and Ear: Kip Connor, PhD: “Targeting the immune system in retinal...