In this issue of eye Insights, we take a close look at nonorganic vision loss(NVL). Inside, you’ll find techniques and tips for evaluating and managingpatients with NVL. Inside Message From the Editor-in-Chief Prevalence and Risk Factors Techniques For Evaluating Patients Tests for Visual Field Loss...
Nakul Singh, MD, MS, a PGY-3 ophthalmology resident, received the 2020 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund his research to “characterize the biomechanics of how ERMs and test the effect of netarsudil on inhibiting contraction.” He will complete the project under...
The AAVCOVID vaccine program, a novel gene-based vaccine strategy led by Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass Eye and Ear, that utilizes an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector, was granted an...
A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Mass Eye and Ear have successfully restored vision in elderly mice by turning back the clock on their aged nerve cells in the retina to recapture their youthful function. The team used an adeno-associated virus as a vehicle to deliver into...
We have an open position for a postdoctoral fellow to work on the development and implementation of EEG-based closed-loop brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for treatment and rehabilitation of a debilitating neurological disorder, dystonia. The postdoctoral fellow will be part of a multidisciplinary...
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