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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...

Maan Alkharashi, MD, received funds in the in the amount of $1750 per patient over one year for his involvement in the clinical study with the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group, "Binocular Dig Rush Game Treatment for Amblyopia” funded by the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes...

Kahn Laboratory Lab PI: C. Ronald Kahn ( C.Ronald.Kahn@joslin.harvard.edu) 6th floor Joslin Diabetes Center 1 Joslin Place 02215 Boston

Our team submitted 5 abstracts to the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) 2018 meeting - two abstracts have been selected for platform talks. Congratulations Drs. C. Rubadue and E. Lewin! Developing a Deep Learning Image Analysis Pipeline for Benign Breast Disease Histologic...

The Lions VisionGift eye bank has been instrumental in supporting Mass. Eye and Ear’s educational initiatives. In the past two years, the nonprofit has donated more than $50,000 in practice tissue for Harvard Ophthalmology residents and Mass. Eye and Ear fellows. This generous gift has helped...

New research by Larry Benowitz, PhD, and colleagues shows how zinc regulates the survival of retinal ganglion cells, and by binding it (zinc chelation), can help the optic nerve to regenerate. Their findings, published in PNAS (January, 2017), could potentially lead to therapies that help patients...

Congratulations to our Chief Resident and senior residents, who have matched with outstanding fellowship programs: Durga Borkar, MD, Vitreoretinal Fellow, Wills Eye Hospital Eric Gaier, MD, PhD, Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellow, Mass. Eye and Ear/HMS Chief Resident Seanna Grob, MD, MAS, ASOPRS Ophthalmic...