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Mengyu Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Harvard Ophthalmology Artificial Intelligence Lab, is a recipient of the Research to Prevent Blindness International Research Collaborators Award. Dr. Wang has a longstanding interest in...

In October 2022, Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, former cornea fellow at Mass Eye and Ear and research fellow at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, donated $100,000 to Mass Eye and Ear in honor of the research and life work of two Mass Eye and Ear cornea faculty who served as his mentors...

It is with heavy hearts that we announce that alumna Alice McPherson, MD, passed away peacefully at the age of 97 on January 16, 2023. A Professor of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. McPherson was the first full-time woman vitreoretinal surgeon in the world and a towering figure in...

Zhengping (Ping) Hu, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, was recognized with a Young Investigator Outstanding Research Award at the Pathobiology for Investigators, Students, and Academicians 2022 Young Investigator Virtual Meeting...

David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and John B. Miller, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, were recently recognized with Excellence in Mentoring Awards from the Center for Faculty Development Mass General Hospital...

Zhigang He, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, received a 2022 Vision Restoration Initiative Award from the Gilbert Family Foundation. These awards support the development of therapies to restore...

Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, the Charles Edward Whitten Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, received an Honor Award from the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) for her many contributions to the Society's scientific programs at its past annual meetings. Dr. Sobrin was formally...

Gena Heidary, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has been selected for the Kern Faculty Fellowship for Leading Change for Humanistic Healthcare. The Fellowship, co-sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Kern Institute for...

We’re pleased to share that Harvard Ophthalmology/Mass Eye and Ear has once again been ranked among the top departments in the nation by Ophthalmology Times for our excellence in clinical care, research, and education. Our program was ranked second overall, second in research, and third in clinical...

Cherrell Price, MS, a third-year medical student at Morehouse School of Medicine and a 2021 alumna of Harvard Ophthalmology's Research Scholars Program, is the recipient of the Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship. This fellowship allows gifted students to take...