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The neuroscience community at Harvard is brimming with talented and interesting individuals, each with their own unique stories on how they got here, what motivates them, what passions and dreams they have, who inspires them and what they do for fun. Read here about Arman Simonyan, who visited and...

In a study recently published in Nature, a team of Boston Children’s Hospital and Mass. Eye and Ear investigators including Artur A. Indzhykulian, MD, PhD, discovered that the coat protein of hair-cell stereocilia, known as Polycystic Kidney and Hepatic Disease 1-Like 1 (PKHD1L1), is required for...

Mass. Eye and Ear fellow Stephan Ong Tone, MDCM, PhD, FRCSC, is the co-winner (with Nakul Shekhawat, MD, MPH, of the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University) of the 2019 Claes H. Dohlman MD, PhD, Fellowship Award. The award recognizes outstanding clinical fellows training in the area of...

Several faculty and alumni have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Congratulations to alumnus and part-time faculty member Anthony Adamis, MD; faculty member Elizabeth Engle, MD; and alumna Julia Haller, MD. Established by the National Academy of Sciences, the NAM is...

Clinicians and researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, in collaboration with a team of researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a research institute and university in Switzerland, are developing next-generation hearing implants that may allow those...

Patricia A. D'Amore, PhD, MBA, Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research at Harvard Ophthalmology, was recognized by Regis College with the Shining Example Award for her exceptional contributions to ophthalmology research and her continued support of student scholarships at Regis College. A...

Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhDOn September 23, 2019, the 20th anniversary of Bi Visibility Day, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held its first-ever bisexual health research workshop. As an invited panelist at this event, sponsored by the NIH’s Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office, I joined 19...

The Atlantic Coast Retina Club (ACRC) Meeting and Macula 2019 Conference was held at Mass. Eye and Ear and the Seaport Hotel on January 10-12. On January 10, the ACRC Meeting featured mystery case studies presented by residents and fellows. Held in the Meltzer Auditorium at Mass. Eye and Ear, the...

Ronen is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and is interested in structural variation in human genomes and its effects on human health. Welcome, Ronen!

For a group of Harvard researchers, communication and intervention are the keys to a new tool designed to reduce bullying of LGBTQ students around the country. According to the most recent information gathered by the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, lesbian, gay and bisexual students are...