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A complication associated with bone marrow transplantation, graft-versus-host-disease occurs when a transplanted immune system attacks certain parts of a host’s body, and may cause severe dry eye and damage to the cornea. A clinical trial at Massachusetts Eye and Ear showed that topical doses of...

Selecta is licensing Anc80 from Massachusetts Eye and Ear for a rare genetic disease with options on additional pre-specified indications. By combining Anc80 with Selecta’s investigational drug candidate, SVP-Rapamycin (SEL-110), Selecta is seeking to advance a new gene therapy platform designed to...

Dear Friends,It has been an eventful year moving from the University of Alberta in Canada to the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia in the USA and planning a really exciting program for the 2016 Society for Glycobiology Annual Meeting!I would like to formally invite...

Boston, Mass. — Lotfi B. Merabet, PhD, OD, MPH , an optometrist and vision researcher at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, is the 2016 recipient of the Low Vision Research Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) and the Lions...

Ann Arbor, Mich. — Eversight, a global non-profit network of eye banks, has awarded an Eye and Vision Research grant to Ula V. Jurkunas, MD (pictured), and Shivakumar Vasanth, PhD. Dr. Jurkunas is a specialist in corneal and refractive surgery at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an Associate Professor...

Facile Methods and Technologies for Synthesis of Biomedically Relevant Carbohydrates (U01)(RFA-RM-16-020) Data Integration and Analysis Tools: Accessible Resources for Integration and Analysis of Carbohydrate and Glycoconjugate Data in the Context of Comparable Gene, Protein, and Lipid Data (U01)...

Deborah Pavan-Langston, MD, FACS—Harvard Ophthalmology alumna and Professor Emeritus—received the Claes Dohlman Society Award at the Cornea Society/Eye Bank Association of America 2016 Fall Educational Symposium. This lifetime achievement award recognizes her excellence in teaching and contributions...

On September 21-22, 2012, Harvard Ophthalmology hosted its 2nd Biennial International Symposium on age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which spurred lively discussion and debate among more than 200 clinicians, researchers, and trainees in attendance. A diverse and distinguished group of AMD...

Over 120 clinicians, scientists, and trainees attended the 2016 Biennial Glaucoma and Neuro-ophthalmology Fall Festivals, held September 23-25 in Boston. Co-directed by Louis Pasquale, MD, Joseph Rizzo III, MD, and Angela Turalba, MD, these clinical conferences featured surgical and clinical case...

Leo Kim, MD, PhD, received a grant from the E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. in the amount of $80,000 over three years for his project studying Runx1 in retinal neovascularization. He is working on this project in collaboration with Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD.