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Kinga M. Bujakowska, PhD, a molecular geneticist and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness 2020 RPB International Research Collaborators Award. The award will provide $75,000 of support for her joint research project with...

Nurhan Torun, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Chief, Division of Ophthalmology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, received the 2020 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Academy Award for demonstrating the highest commitment to the Academy community through participation, service...

Several ophthalmology faculty, staff, and trainees were honored with Partners HealthCare Partners in Excellence Awards for their contributions to Mass. Eye and Ear. These awards represent the annual, system-wide employee recognition program. Members of each organization nominate individual employees...

Massachusetts Eye and Ear is entering into an exclusive licensing agreement with Biogen to develop a potential treatment for inherited retinal degeneration due to mutations in the PRPF31 gene, which are among the most common cause for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa. Previous lab-based...

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rossin, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 2020 Thomas J. Madden Fellowship in Retina. Dr. Rossin, who served as the AY 2018-2019 Chief Resident and Director of the Ocular Trauma Service, is completing a two-year vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at Mass. Eye and Ear under Dean...

Mass. Eye and Ear postdoctoral research fellow Caitlin Collin, PhD, was awarded a Career Starter Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. The grant will provide $70,000 of support for Dr. Collin’s research on the development of gene editing approaches for ABCA4-associated Stargardt disease...

Dan Gong, MD, has been honored with the 2020 Robert Brockhurst Academic Development Award. This award provides essential support to clinical or research retina fellows by enabling them to attend and present at national conferences. Dr. Gong, who previously served as Ophthalmology Chief Resident at...

Zhengping (Ping) Hu, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, was awarded a Competitive Renewal Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.The grant will provide $70,000 of support for Dr. Hu’s research on endomucin as a potential...

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...

Margaux is a postdoctoral fellow at BWH / HMS and will be developing methods for investigating the genetic architecture of complex traits and diseases. Welcome, Margaux!