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The AAVCOVID vaccine program, led by Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, is a unique gene-based vaccine approach for COVID-19. It uses an adeno-associated virus (AAV)—a...

Rohan Bir Singh, MD, a fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, received a 2020 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Science Communication Training Fellowship. The competitive, one-year program empowers early career scientists to communicate their complex...

Announcing the HMPA Mini MBA 2020 Fellowship awardees Dr Chukwuemeka Okoro Dr Jiska van der Reest Dr Saumya Gupta We look forward to sharing your experiences after the program! Interview in September 2020 following completion of the program: With "Emeka" Chukwuemeka Okoro Where did you do your PhD...

Our papers exploring mosaic chromosomal alterations in UK Biobank ( N~500K; Loh et al. 2020 Nature) and BioBank Japan ( N~200K; Terao et al. 2020 Nature) are now online at Nature. Highlights of these studies include discovery of several new risk loci at which acquired mutations systematically...

Congratulations to the graduating class of 2020. This year’s ceremony—designed for safe social distancing—featured residents in-person with a live broadcast via Zoom, followed by a virtual-only graduation for clinical fellows on June 18. The ceremony celebrated eight Harvard Ophthalmology residents...

Recently we published in Cell Chemical Biology a method to produce glycopeptide libraries in small scale titled: " Parallel Glyco-SPOT Synthesis of Glycopeptide Libraries", The method utilizes a filter paper as the solid support to build a library of glycopeptides in parallel to produce microgram...

In response to the current events of anti-black police violence and other forms of racism, Harvard WGS faculty have compiled a list of recommended reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary formations of racism from a perspective that integrates analysis of race with that of gender and...

Dr. Valerie E. Stone, a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2020 recipient of the Society’s LGBTQ Health Award, an honor recognizing an individual who has made outstanding...

On June 13, Harvard Ophthalmology hosted a successful reimagined Annual and Alumni Virtual Meeting with nearly 300 faculty and alumni attendees. With a central theme of I nnovation and Adaptation During COVID-19 and Beyond, the event focused on the department's creative response to the pandemic and...

Ocular Technologies, co-founded by Chief Resident Grayson Armstrong, MD, MPH, and MIT students Brett Sternfield and Zona Liu, has won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition for its development of a universal slit lamp protection shield. The protection shields have been deployed throughout Mass...