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The Harvard Medical Postdoc Association (HMPA) organized a bye bye summer meetup on September 25 at Tall Ship Boston. Great turnout for the event! Thank you to all the postdocs and friends for coming!

Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a clinician scientist at Mass Eye and Ear, has been named the inaugural Frederick and Thaddeus Jakobiec Chair in Ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear. An international leader in eye pathology and the...

A key foundation partner to Harvard Ophthalmology, the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund (MLERF) continues to provide critical support to the research programs of researcher at our affiliates. MLERF will provide more than $400,000 in funding to support the following innovative research projects...

Lisa Lin, MD, MBE, a PGY-4 resident, received the Joanne Angle Abstract of Distinction Award for her abstract “An artificial intelligence (AI) model for screening computed tomography (CT) imaging for thyroid eye disease” at the annual Women in Ophthalmology summer symposium event last month. Dr. Lin...

Our group submitted 3 abstracts to be presented at the BIDMC Research Retreat, all of which were accepted to the conference! Great work from all the members of our team!

Jerry Cavallerano, OD, PhD, an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, will be honored with the 2022 William Feinbloom Award at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in October. This award is presented to an individual who has made a distinguished and significant...

Cris Jacoba, MD, a clinical research fellow at Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, placed second in the Rabb-Venable Excellence in Ophthalmology Program in the Resident/Fellow category for his paper "Automated machine learning models for diabetic retinopathy screening using handheld...

The Scientist A paper argues that the evolutionary loss of a thin vocal membrane in the larynx may have facilitated oral communication. Dr. Kristina Simonyan is quoted. Read the full article here.

Dr. Heng was one of the invited international speakers at the National University of Singapore non-codingRNA symposium 2022. The title of her talk was, "Plasma miRNAs associated with cisplatin sensitivity in breast cancer." https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/core-facilities/noncoding-rna-ncrna/events-w...

Marlene Durand, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is the 2022 recipient of the Kenneth Kaplan Infectious Diseases Clinician Award from the Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society. This award, named in honor of the late infectious disease specialist Dr...