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A phase I/II clinical trial at Massachusetts Eye and Ear found that some patients taking high doses of atorvastatin (cholesterol-lowering medication) had complete resolution of lipid deposits in the dry form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the...

The Office of Global Surgery and Health recently coordinated the second faculty visit to Haiti State University Hospital in Port-au-Prince to work with the residency program there. Roberto Pineda II, MD, and Shizuo Mukai, MD, returned after their initial faculty visit in June 2015. The focus of this...

Dong Feng Chen, PhD, received a National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute R01 grant in the amount of $2,462,500 over five years for her project, "The molecular basis underlying optic nerve growth in development and regeneration." Miguel Gonzalez, MD, PhD , a Cornea KPro Research Fellow at...

Martine Jager, MD, PhD, was promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology at Leiden University in the Netherlands on January 1, 2016. Her inaugural lecture will take place on April 25, 2016, at Leiden University.

Tomasz (Tommy) Stryjewski, currently a second year resident, has been selected Chief Resident and Director of the Mass. Eye and Ear Eye Trauma Service for the academic year 2017-2018. In this vital role, he will join the leadership of one of the busiest ocular trauma centers in the country and serve...

Lisa Cowan's, MD, PhD, paper, "Introducing a new surgical technology: Controversies in femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery and impact on resident surgical training," published in the Fall 2015 issue of International Ophthalmology Clinics , was one of the top 10 articles read in 2015 in...

Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Joan W. Miller Scholar in Retinal Research at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, was selected to receive a 2016 ARVO Foundation/Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award. The award will...

Mass. Eye and Ear researchers describe the role of endomucin, a molecule that – under healthy circumstances – resists the adhesion of white blood cells as they move through the circulatory system. These findings suggest that promoting the expression of endomucin (displayed in red in image) may...

Dr Heng is a recipient of a 2016 WICR Scholar Award at the American Association for Cancer Research. She will present at an AACR minisymposium about her work, "M olecular analyses of histopathologic morphologic features in breast cancer".