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Honors and Awards Received January-February 2016

Dong Feng Chen, PhD, received a National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute R01 grant in the amount of $2,462,500 over five years for her project, "The molecular basis underlying optic nerve growth in development and regeneration." Miguel Gonzalez, MD, PhD , a Cornea KPro Research Fellow at...

Martine Jager Promoted to Leiden University Professor

Martine Jager, MD, PhD, was promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology at Leiden University in the Netherlands on January 1, 2016. Her inaugural lecture will take place on April 25, 2016, at Leiden University.

Congratulations to Our 2016 ARVO Fellows!

The title of ARVO Fellow is an honor established to recognize current ARVO members for their individual accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the Association. ARVO Fellows serve as role models and mentors for individuals pursuing careers in vision and ophthalmology research and help...

D’Amore Receives HMS William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award

Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, FARVO, the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was selected for the prestigious HMS William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award. This award is one of three Excellence in Mentoring awards...

Preventing the inflammatory response to deficient sleep

The primary goal of this project is to gather preliminary support for the hypothesis that deficient sleep leads to pain amplification through an inflammatory mechanism while the secondary goal is to investigate the potential mechanisms contributing to blood pressure reduction in response to aspirin...

Harvard-Vision Clinical Scientist Development Program (K12)

The extraordinary growth and specialization of the sciences over the past several decades has made it increasingly difficult to link the divide between clinical and basic science components of ophthalmic and vision sciences. The less-than-optimal degree of cross-talk between scientists engaged in...