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Luk Vandenberghe, PhD , Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass. Eye and Ear and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, will receive the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Outstanding New Investigator Award — one of the Society’s highest honors...

Neena Haider, PhD , Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, was invited by the American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF) to lobby Congress to increase support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Eye Institute. In March, she met with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congressmen Joe...

First-year Harvard Ophthalmology resident Wendy Liu, MD, PhD, received the 2018 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund her research on mechanosensitive ion channels in primary open-angle glaucoma. She will complete the project under the guidance of her mentor Janey...

The Department of Ophthalmology was, once again, well represented at this year’s Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) Imaging in the Eye Conference and Annual Meeting, held April 28 through May 3 in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 145 faculty and trainees participated as course...

Mary-Magdalene Ugo Dodd, MD, received the 2018 AAPOS Fellow Research Award for her project, "Long Term Outcomes of Adjustable Nasal Transposition of Split Lateral Rectus Muscle for Third Nerve Palsy - An International Perspective." The research project involved an innovative, cloud-based survey that...

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Director of the Ocular Genomics Institute at Harvard Medical School, and the Associate Chief for Clinical Research in Ophthalmology and Interim Glaucoma Service Director at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has been...

Attendance for the 3rd Biennial International Symposium on Ocular Regeneration and the 5th Biennial International Symposium on AMD continues to climb each year, reflecting the high caliber of these meetings and the value they bring to their respective fields. Both events sparked great discussions...

On October 26, Joan W. Miller, MD, the David Glendenning Cogan Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, received the 2018 Charles L. Schepens, MD/American Academy of Ophthalmology...

Congratulations to Harvard Ophthalmology faculty who are recognized in Boston magazine’s 2019 Top Doctors list. Physicians are selected by their peers via an online nomination process established by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a health care research and information company. Linda Dagi, MD Reza...

Nazlee Zebardast, MD, MSc, has been selected to receive the Mentoring for Advancement of Physicians-Scientists (MAPS) Award by the American Glaucoma Society (AGS). The award, presented to clinicians at the early stages of their academic careers to facilitate their glaucoma research, will provide $10...