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Jessica Halem, program manager of the LGBT Office within the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at HMS, shares some of the ways the Harvard Medical School community is working to reduce health care disparities for transgender patients. Efforts range from medical education and...

New nonprofit organization will bring treatments to clinical trial for people at risk for blindness due to ultra-rare inherited retinal diseases. Boston, Mass. — Scientists and advocates today announced the formation of Odylia Therapeutics, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to creating gene...

Self-swab testing for HPV could be a good alternative to pap tests for transmasculine people, says Sari Reisner, principal investigator of the study and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, also in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H...

Luk Vandenberghe, PhD , Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass. Eye and Ear and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, will receive the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Outstanding New Investigator Award — one of the Society’s highest honors...

Neena Haider, PhD , Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, was invited by the American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF) to lobby Congress to increase support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Eye Institute. In March, she met with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congressmen Joe...

Po-Ru Loh will be presenting work on mosaic CNVs in clonal hematopoiesis and brain development at the Harvard Biostatistics / HMS Department of Biomedical Informatics B3D Seminar on Mon 4/30.

We are pleased to introduce the five medical students who’ve been matched to our residency program this year. We look forward to their arrival and hope all will join us in welcoming them this June. Ciersten BurksMedical School: Indiana University Harvard otolaryngology resident Christopher...

First-year Harvard Ophthalmology resident Wendy Liu, MD, PhD, received the 2018 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund her research on mechanosensitive ion channels in primary open-angle glaucoma. She will complete the project under the guidance of her mentor Janey...

The Department of Ophthalmology was, once again, well represented at this year’s Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) Imaging in the Eye Conference and Annual Meeting, held April 28 through May 3 in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 145 faculty and trainees participated as course...

Po-Ru Loh has been selected for a 2018 NIH Director's New Innovator Award, which supports "unusually innovative research from early career investigators." The proposed project (" Revealing Somatic Genome Alterations and Their Clinical Sequelae: Ultrasensitive Computational Detection of Mosaic...