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Congratulations to Rabia Amir, Bilal Mahmood, Angela Wang and Sruti Sakamuri for matching into competitive residency programs. We're proud of you!

Carolyn E. Kloek, MD, has been selected for the 2017 Women in Ophthalmology (WIO) Educator Award. This award is given to an individual who has consistently provided an exceptionally positive and rewarding training experience to medical students, residents, and fellows. At Harvard Medical School, Dr...

Magali Saint-Geniez, PhD, published a commentary in they May 2017 issue of Cell Stem Cell entitled, "Eyeing the Fountain of Youth," and it was available for free until July 5, 2017.

The Medical Eye Staff presented Samir Melki, MD, PhD, with the 2017 Distinguished Service Award at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Annual Spring Meeting of the Trustees and Medical Staff. The award is given in recognition of outstanding teaching and clinical contributions to Mass. Eye and Ear that...

Jing Chen, PhD, received a grant from Bright Focus Foundation in the amount of $160,000 over two years for her project, "Targeting Rev-erbα to preserve RPE/photoreceptor in AMD." Silvio Alessandro Di Gioia, PhD, a research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, received a grant from Knights Templar...

The Postdoctoral Training Program at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear gave two awards for best scientific paper by a trainee at Fellows’ Recognition Day on June 9, 2017 – one in the category of Wet Lab and one in the category of Dry Lab. Anitha Krishnan, PhD, a...

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...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear’s P30 core grant competitive renewal (PI: Pablo Argüeso, PhD) at $3,940,010 over five years. This critical funding supports four shared core resources at 20 Staniford Street: Animal Resource, Flow...