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Recent Grants - April 2017

Joseph Ciolino, MD, received a Pilot and Feasibility Grant in the amount of $30,000 from the Boston Area Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center to investigate the use of dexamethasone-eluting contact lenses in animal models of diabetic retinopathy

Patrick Oellers awarded Thomas J. Madden Fellowship in Retina

Patrick Oellers, MD, is the inaugural recipient of the Thomas J. Madden Fellowship in Retina at Mass. Eye and Ear. Patrick is completing his first year as a Retina Surgery Fellow. The fellowship was created to support a clinical or research fellow while honoring the legacy of Thomas J. Madden who...

2017 NEOS poster contest winners

Congratulations to the Harvard Ophthalmology trainees who placed in the New England Ophthalmological Society (NEOS) annual poster contest held earlier this month. Second place: “Evaluation of in silico reconstructed ancestral adeno-associated virus for gene augmentation therapy in a mouse model of...

Genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9 prevents angiogenesis of the retina

Powerful new technology may lead to novel therapies to prevent vision loss, blindness in those with diseases of the retina Boston, Mass. — A research team from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear has successfully prevented mice from developing angiogenesis of the retina...

Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI grant

Po-Ru Loh has been awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface for his research applying statistical phasing methods to detect chromosomal abnormalitiies in blood DNA.