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Treatment and Outcomes for IRDs

Until the approval of Luxturna®, there were no definitive treatments for any IRDs. Today, with the success of Luxturna®, preliminary results from therapies currently under investigation, and an expanding therapeutic toolkit, we have good reason for optimism. We envision a future in which gene...

Applications and Referrals

Applications to Other Diseases The same types of genetic strategies currently being tested for IRDs are also being tested and beginning to receive regulatory approvals in other areas of medicine. For example, the FDA has approved both gene-augmentation therapy and antisense oligonucleotide therapy...

Talk on haplotype-informed CNV analysis at ProbGen 2022

At the 2022 Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) conference, Margaux Hujoel will be presenting her work on haplotype-informed CNV detection and subsequent association and fine-mapping analysis in UK Biobank: "Influences of rare copy number variation on human complex traits" (Mon Mar 28).

Five Medical Students Match into Harvard Combined OHNS Residency Program

We are pleased to introduce the five medical students who matched in the Harvard Combined Residency Program in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery this year. We hope that you will join us in welcoming them to Mass Eye and Ear, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital this June...

2022 Spring Scientific Symposium

HDDC Spring Symposium – Tuesday, June 7, 2022 Enders Building Folkman Auditorium (In person) and Virtually 9am – 5 PM 9-9:15am Welcome and introduction Sensory-motor regulation of gut functions 9:15-9:45AM Irene Miguel Aliaga (MRC – Imperial College London) 9:45-10:15AM Amber Alhadeff 10:15-10:30...

Dr. Gerburg Wulf, a 2022 ASCO WWCC Mentorship Award nominee

Dr Wulf, one of Dr Heng's mentor at BIDMC, has been recognised as a nominee for the 2022 ASCO Women Who Conquer Cancer (WWCC) Mentorship Award. https://www.conquer.org/news/conquer-cancer-announces-2022-wwcc-mentorsh... This is a well-deserved achivement for Dr. Wulf. She is an outstanding female...