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Ophthalmologists at Mass. Eye and Ear among most experienced nationwide to offer newly FDA-approved laser vision correction technology. Boston, Mass. — Ophthalmologists at Massachusetts Eye and Ear are now offering a new type of minimally-invasive laser vision correction, the ReLEx ® SMILE procedure...

Ula V. Jurkunas, MD , received a grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $3,431,841 over 4 years for her project, “Safety and Feasibility of Cultivated Autologous Limbal Epithelial Cell (CALEC) Transplantation in the Treatment of Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency.” This grant...

Zhongjie Fu, PhD, received a grant from the Blind Children's Center in Los Angeles in the amount of $25,000 over 1 year, for her project, "FGF21 protects against hyperglycemia-associated ROP through modulating energy metabolism." Neena Haider, PhD , has received a grant from the American Macular...

Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear released a new vision assistive app that acts as a “smart magnifying glass” to help people with low vision search for keywords in the physical world. Developed in the laboratory of Gang Luo, PhD , Associate Professor of...

A huge thank you to the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2018! The NEI has strongly supported Ophthalmology research programs at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Ophthalmology over the years and we are grateful for its ongoing...

In November, more than 50 Harvard Ophthalmology faculty members—representing several affiliates—participated as course instructors, panelists, moderators, and lecturers at the 2017 American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting. Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, Mass. Eye and Ear; Mary Daly, MD, VA Boston...

Dr. Evangelos Gragoudas will once again offer an award for outstanding work in retina published by a Mass. Eye and Ear Trainee. For 2018, there will again be two $5,000 prizes, one for clinical work and one for basic or translational. Competition Rules: Only Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye...

ONL Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for preserving sight in a range of retinal diseases, has announced that Joan W. Miller, MD, Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and...

Contact: Suzanne Day suzanne_day@meei.harvard.edu 617-573-3897 BOSTON – The Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology has been granted a $30,000 Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship for Daniel Diaz-Aguilar. This grant will allow Diaz-Aguilar to spend a...

Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, received the Kersley Medal from the British Ocular Surface Society, and delivered an associated lectureship entitled "Ocular surface inflammation - lab to bedside" at the Society's 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting in London on December 4, 2015.