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Dr. Fernandez-Godino Receives BrightFocus Foundation Award

Rosario Fernandez-Godino, PhD, MSc, has been selected to receive the BrightFocus Foundation Award. The award, presented by the foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research Program to investigators who have generated promising preliminary data on potential treatments for macular degeneration, will...

Addressing Opioid Use Disorder among LGBTQ Populations

By: Michael GirouardMD/MBA Candidate Class of 2020Harvard Medical School & Harvard Business School Opioid use disorder (OUD) has reached alarming rates in the United States. As a clerkship student rotating through the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (a Harvard teaching affiliate), I was struck by how...

Investigators Receive Bertarelli Collaborative Research Award

Artur Indzhykulian, MD, PhD, and Anne Takesian, PhD, of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass. Eye and Ear and both Assistant Professors of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medcial School, have both received Bertarelli Collaborative Research Awards within the Bertarelli Program in Translational...

Upcoming talks on phasing and mosaicism

Po-Ru Loh will be speaking about haplotype phasing and mosaic chromosomal alterations at 23andMe (Thu 10/11), ASHG 2018 (Wed 10/17, platform talk #17 at 9am), and Michigan (Tue 10/23).

Neuroglial Remodeling After Injury May Contribute to Retinal Degeneration

A study led by Eleftherios Paschalis, PhD, describes a mechanism by which patients with acute ocular injuries become susceptible to progressive neurodegeneration long after the injury has taken place. Published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Paschalis and colleagues demonstrate...

Investigators "PoinEar" New Device For Kids With Chronic Ear Infections

Members of the Remenschneider Lab at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, including Harvard Otolaryngology Lecturer Aaron Remenschneider, MD, MPH, Harvard Neurotology Fellow Elliott Kozin, MD, and PhD student Nicole Black have created PionEar, a tiny bio-inspired, 3D-printed ear tube...

Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, Builds Designer Viruses for Improved Gene Therapy

In Nature, Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass. Eye and Ear, discusses increasing the efficiency of gene therapies by manipulating the viral vectors that transport genes into cells. He also talks...

Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, Receives Barbara McNeil Award

Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Research at HMS, and Co-Director of the Harvard Ophthalmology AMD Center of Excellence, received the Barbara McNeil Award for Exceptional Service...