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BIDMC article released Oct 26, 2017

At the 2012 ARVO Annual Meeting, May 6–10 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Harvard Ophthalmology faculty, trainees, and research fellows authored 233 abstracts, including 38 papers and 195 research posters representing the investigative work of more than 220 individuals: 91 faculty, 14 clinical fellows...

As part of the National Eye Institute Audacious Goals Initiative, the National Institutes of Health awarded $12.4 million to six research teams to identify biological factors that affect neural regeneration in the retina. Larry Benowitz, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, and colleagues at Stanford...

Boston, Mass. — Ula V. Jurkunas, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, and a resident of Winchester, Mass., has been selected to receive a 2017 ARVO Foundation/Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras...

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.

Boston, Mass. — Massachusetts Eye and Ear opened a new ophthalmology (eye care) practice at 578 Main Street in Malden, Mass., on March 6. Mass. Eye and Ear, Malden is the hospital’s 19 th location designed to bring the expertise of Mass. Eye and Ear specialists to the surrounding greater Boston area...

Congratulations to our incoming optometric residents for AY 2017-2018: Jordan Davidner, New England College of Optometry Bonnie Wessler, University of Puerto Rico.