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C. Stephen Foster, MD , Professor of Ophthalmology, part-time, at Mass. Eye and Ear, and f ounder of Massachusetts Eye Research & Surgery Institution ( MERSI) -a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to patient-centered, quality eye care from the world’s leading physicians – recently had his method of...

Mass. Eye and Ear and the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology are proud to be leading this important clinical trial. We look forward to reporting on safety and efficacy studies in the months and years to come. ReNeuron announces first patient treated in US Phase I/II clinical trial in...

Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School neuro-ophthalmologist and researcher awarded funding by the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. Joseph F. Rizzo III, MD, has been awarded grant funding as part of the Vision Prosthesis Pilot Study, a Congressionally...

Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair of Centers of Excellence, will receive the 2016 Ernst H. Bárány Prize from the International Society of Eye Research (ISER). The Council of ISER awards an International Prize in honor of Professor Ernst H. Bárány, for their...

Anthony Adamis, MD; Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD; Claes Dohlman, MD, PhD; Evangelos Gragoudas, MD; Martine Jager, MD, PhD; and Joan W. Miller, MD, rank among the top 100 most influential people in Ophthalmology in the world, according to T he Ophthalmologist's "2016 Power List." With a readership of...

Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School glaucoma researcher awarded funding by the BrightFocus Foundation. Boston, Mass. — The BrightFocus Foundation recently honored Meredith Gregory-Ksander, PhD, of the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, with the Thomas R. Lee Award for...

Congratulations to the Valve Research Team for presenting their research at the 5th annual HMS Surgery Research Day. Special shoutout to Rabya Saraf for being one of 16 people who had podium presentations and for receiving the 'Excellence in Surgery Research' award! The rest of the team presented...

Jason Comander, MD, PhD, received a Foundation Fighting Blindness Enhanced Career Development Award in the amount of $510,000 over three years. Meredith Gregory-Ksander, PhD, received a grant from ONL Therapeutics in the amount of $59,739 over one year to determine whether treatment with a Fas...

BOSTON – (July 15, 2016) – Jennifer K. Sun, MD, MPH, Investigator in the Section on Vascular Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center, an Ophthalmologist in Beetham Eye Institute (BEI) at Joslin Diabetes Center, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, has been granted an Physician-Scientist...

Faculty Awards Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD, and co-PI, Leo Kim, MD, PhD, received a Department of Defense grant in the amount of $1,499,592 over three years, for their project, "Testing the Preclinical Efficacy of Therapies for Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy." They are collaborating on this...