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Massachusetts Grand Officers of the Knights Templar Eye Foundation came to Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School to present two checks for their $65,000 Pediatric Ophthalmology Career-Starter Research Grant. One went to Alessandro Di Gioia, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the...

On March 29, 2017, the Boston Children’s Hospital Ophthalmology Department became the first pediatric institution in the world to have the Macular Integrity Assessment (MAIA) scotopic microperimeter, an advanced ophthalmology diagnostic imager. According to its manufacturer (CenterVue, Padova, Italy...

We are pleased to announce that the Mass. Eye and Ear/Mass General Department of Ophthalmology was once again ranked among the best in the nation, earning the #4 national ranking (and #1 in New England) it has maintained for the past 28 years by U.S. News & World Report , in the 2017-2018 “Best...

The New England Ophthalmological Society (NEOS) —the second-oldest American medical specialty society in continuous existence—offers its 700+ members thoughtful and stimulating educational programs five times each year. The educational mission of NEOS resonates at every meeting, and members can...

Zhongjie Fu, PhD, received a grant from the Blind Children's Center in Los Angeles in the amount of $25,000 over 1 year, for her project, "FGF21 protects against hyperglycemia-associated ROP through modulating energy metabolism." Neena Haider, PhD , has received a grant from the American Macular...

Po-Ru Loh's abstract on clonal hematopoiesis in the UK Biobank (with key collaborator Giulio Genovese) has been selected for a plenary talk at the 2017 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) conference and as a finalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards.

Luk H. Vandenberghe, PhD, along with collaborator and lead author Rob Collin, PhD, of Radboud University Medical Center, has been selected to receive the 2017 Ed Gollob Board of Directors’ Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB). This award is presented annually in recognition of...

Findings may have significant therapeutic implications for AMD, the most common cause of elderly blindness in the developed world Boston, Mass. — A compound of specific bioactive products from a major family of enzymes reduced the severity of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a preclinical...

Po-Ru Loh has been awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface for his research applying statistical phasing methods to detect chromosomal abnormalitiies in blood DNA.

Po-Ru Loh has started a faculty position at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School.