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Second year resident Ines Lains, MD, PhD, has been selected to participate in the 2021 Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO)/Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Resident and Fellow Research Forum at the upcoming annual meeting. This forum was established to encourage the most...

Francois C. Delori, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, will retire on January 1, 2021. Dr. Delori was born in Ghent, Belgium, the birthplace of Dr. Charles Schepens. In 1963, he traveled to Boston...

Milica Margeta, MD, PhD, has been awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness 2020 Career Development Award, which will provide $300,000 of support over four years. Milica is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and member of the Mass. Eye and Ear Glaucoma Service, where she specializes in medical...

This year, several ophthalmology faculty were nominated for Harvard Medical School (HMS) Excellence in Mentoring Awards. These prestigious awards honor exceptional mentors who are committed to helping trainees develop and advance their professional careers in basic/clinical medicine, research...

Several faculty from Mass. Eye and Ear, including Joan W. Miller, MD, Chief and Chair of Harvard Ophthalmology; Jason I. Comander, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology; and Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmolgy, participated in a special video to commemorate the...

David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, the Albert and Diane Kaneb Chair in Ophthalmology and Director of the Glaucoma Service at Mass. Eye and Ear, has been selected by his peers to present the 2021 American Glaucoma Society Clinician-Scientist Lecture at the 2021 Annual Meeting next March. Considered one...

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...

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...