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The title of ARVO Fellow is an honor established to recognize current ARVO members for their individual accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the Association. ARVO Fellows serve as role models and mentors for individuals pursuing careers in vision and ophthalmology research and help...

New research findings may lead to development of new therapies to delay or prevent the development of diabetic eye disease. Boston, Mass. — Researchers from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear have shown that a slight increase in transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β)...

Improved delivery vector better penetrates the inner ear, also restores balance in a mouse model of Usher syndrome Boston, Mass. — In the summer of 2015, a team at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported restoring rudimentary hearing in genetically deaf mice using gene therapy...

Jennie Pouget is visiting us from the University of Toronto, where she is an MD/PhD student under Jo Knight’s mentorship. She has been awarded the prestigious Weston Fellowship and the Fulbright scholarship to come and work with us for the coming year.

Samira Asgari recently completed her doctoral studies at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Asgari is funded by a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to explore rare variants in exome sequencing data in our tuberculosis cohort.

Sebastien Viatte is a clinician and a postdoctoral fellow who is visiting us from University of Manchester.

Rachel Knevel has received a Niels Stensen Committee Award to support her fellowship in our group. Knevel is a clinical rheumatologist with a strong background in genetics. She will be joining us from the University of Leiden, where she completed her doctoral training with Tom Huizinga.