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Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—affiliates of Harvard Ophthalmology and members of Mass General Brigham—today announced progress towards the testing and development of an experimental vaccine called AAVCOVID, a novel gene-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV2...

Nine out of 22 Heed Fellowships for AY2020-21 were awarded to current and incoming Harvard Ophthalmology trainees. This postgraduate fellowship is one of the most prestigious honors for ophthalmology trainees who are pursuing academic careers in ophthalmic patient care, education, and research...

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...

Congratulations to Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and alumni who are recognized in Boston magazine’s 2020 Top Doctors list. Physicians are selected by their peers via an online nomination process established by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a healthcare research and information company. Boston...

Harvard’s diverse neuroscience community — hundreds of basic researchers and physician-scientists, are engaged in the process of discovery across campuses and disciplines in Cambridge and the Greater Boston Area. Dr. Simonyan was features as the Neuroscientist of the Week #60. Read more here.

The Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Welcomes Sari Reisner, Sc.D., Director of Transgender Research in the Section of Men’s Health, Aging and Metabolism, in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension The Department of Medicine is pleased to welcome Sari L...

Dr. Heng will give an Oral presentation on "Tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and breast cancer somatic genomic alterations“. In addition, her team will present two posters at the symposium.

Two abstracts will be presented at AACR 2020 San Diego: Kensler et al. Automated quantitative measures of terminal duct lobular unit involution and breast cancer risk Liu et al. The association between somatic mutational profiles and germline polygenic risk scores in TCGA

Emily Liu was a 2019 BIDMC High Sch Summer Intern, mentored by Dr. Heng. She finished in 6th place in the JSHS Regional Finals and is heading to the Nationals! Great job!

PathPod News Edition: Breast Pathology in the Setting of Gender-Affirming Hormonal Therapy In this episode, Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @merepitt) talks with Dr. Jan Heng of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr. Vanda Torous ( @VandaTorousMD) of Massachusetts General Hospital about breast...