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James “Tony” Stefater, MD, PhD, a vitreoretinal fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear, received the 2017 Vitreoretinal Research Scholarship from the Robert Machemer Foundation in the amount of $20,000 over one year. His winning project, “Development of a novel post-operative intraocular retinal tamponade...

Biobank-based genome-wide association studies are enabling exciting insights in complex trait genetics, but much uncertainty remains over best practices for optimizing statistical power and computational efficiency in GWAS while controlling confounders. Here, we introduce a much faster version of...

Santiago Delgado-Tirado, MD, MSc, a research fellow under the mentorship of Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD, and Leo Kim, MD, PhD, received the Alfonso Martin Escudero Foundation Fellowship. This fellowship, which is in the amount of $88,500 over two years beginning in January 2018, was given for...

Eli Peli, MSc, OD , Professor of Ophthalmology, was the invited keynote speaker at two conferences in China in October and November. On October 26, he gave the keynote talk, “Treatments for neurological visual field loss,” at the first Shenzhen International Summit Forum on Ophthalmology and Visual...

More than 50 surgeons from around the globe gathered at Massachusetts Eye and Ear for the Harvard International Endoscopic Ear Surgery course, which is one of the only continuing medical education (CME) courses in the United States exclusively dedicated to this advanced technique. Co-directed by...

Nearly half of all hearing loss cases are due in some part to genetic factors. Researchers around the world, including many at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, are hard at work on developing therapies to prevent hearing loss from genetic conditions. In collaboration with the Broad Institute...

Venkat had a Summer Internship with Dr Heng in 2016. His project led him to become a Siemens Foundation 2016 SemiFinalist and today, Venkat is named as a Regeneron STS 2017 Scholar! Great job and congratulations, Venkat!

Congratulations to Katherine for reaching the 2017 Siemens Foundation National Finals - whose project is tied for third place. What an amazing achievement!

Treating donor tissue with a special cocktail of molecules improves outcomes and promotes survival of high-risk corneal transplants Boston, Mass. — Treating donor corneas with a cocktail of molecules prior to transplanting to a host may improve survival of grafts and, thus, outcomes in high-risk...

Veterans with genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s and previous concussion show thinning in key areas of brain.