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Watch Harvard Medical School LGBTQ faculty and residents in psychiatry discuss strategies for getting through COVID-19—for both their patients and themselves. They discuss the impact of changes to routines and living arrangements, holding onto your LGBTQ+ identity, the importance of community, and...

The AAVCOVID vaccine program, led by Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, is a unique gene-based vaccine approach for COVID-19. It uses an adeno-associated virus (AAV)—a...

Rohan Bir Singh, MD, a fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, received a 2020 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Science Communication Training Fellowship. The competitive, one-year program empowers early career scientists to communicate their complex...

Announcing the HMPA Mini MBA 2020 Fellowship awardees Dr Chukwuemeka Okoro Dr Jiska van der Reest Dr Saumya Gupta We look forward to sharing your experiences after the program! Interview in September 2020 following completion of the program: With "Emeka" Chukwuemeka Okoro Where did you do your PhD...

Our papers exploring mosaic chromosomal alterations in UK Biobank ( N~500K; Loh et al. 2020 Nature) and BioBank Japan ( N~200K; Terao et al. 2020 Nature) are now online at Nature. Highlights of these studies include discovery of several new risk loci at which acquired mutations systematically...

Kinga M. Bujakowska, PhD, a molecular geneticist and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness 2020 RPB International Research Collaborators Award. The award will provide $75,000 of support for her joint research project with...

Nurhan Torun, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Chief, Division of Ophthalmology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, received the 2020 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Academy Award for demonstrating the highest commitment to the Academy community through participation, service...

Several ophthalmology faculty, staff, and trainees were honored with Partners HealthCare Partners in Excellence Awards for their contributions to Mass. Eye and Ear. These awards represent the annual, system-wide employee recognition program. Members of each organization nominate individual employees...

Massachusetts Eye and Ear is entering into an exclusive licensing agreement with Biogen to develop a potential treatment for inherited retinal degeneration due to mutations in the PRPF31 gene, which are among the most common cause for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa. Previous lab-based...

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rossin, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 2020 Thomas J. Madden Fellowship in Retina. Dr. Rossin, who served as the AY 2018-2019 Chief Resident and Director of the Ocular Trauma Service, is completing a two-year vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at Mass. Eye and Ear under Dean...