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Zhengping (Ping) Hu, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, was awarded a Competitive Renewal Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.The grant will provide $70,000 of support for Dr. Hu’s research on endomucin as a potential...

Elizabeth (Lizzy) Rossin, MD, PhD, is one of three recipients of the 2020-2021 Ronald G. Michels Fellowship Foundation Award. This prestigious award, which provides monetary support, is given to exceptional second-year vitreoretinal surgery fellows in the United States after a rigorous and...

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD , Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Chief of Ophthalmology Clinical Research and Associate Director of the Howe Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, is the 2018 recipient of the Dr. David L. Epstein Award, an honor given...

Suzanne K. Freitag, MD, has been named Editor-in-Chief of Orbit, the International Journal on Orbital Disorders, Oculoplastic and Lacrimal Surgery, as of January 1, 2018. Dr. Freitag joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 2011, and serves as the Director of the Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery...

Dean Cestari, MD , Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Director of Ophthalmology Clinical Fellowship Training at Mass. Eye and Ear, and Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH , Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at HMS, were both selected to receive the prestigious HMS...

The Harvard Ophthalmology Mentoring Program has been recognized with the 2019 Program Award for a Culture of Excellence in Mentoring (PACEM) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This award was established to recognize departments, divisions, offices or programs for their efforts to foster innovation and...

Daisy Shu, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, is the recipient of a 2019 Fight for Sight Post-Doctoral Award. This grant award provides $22,500 in funding to individuals with a doctorate who are interested in academic careers in basic or...

Zhongxiao (Iris) Wang, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, recevied a $65,000 Pediatric Ophthalmology Career-Starter Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. With support from this award, Dr. Wang will work under the mentorship of Jing Chen, PhD, to...

Rachel M. Huckfeldt, MD, PhD, has been selected to receive a Career Development Award from Foundation Fighting Blindness. The award, which is given to two junior clinical investigators who are studying retinal degenerative diseases, will provide $375,000 of support over five years. Dr. Huckfeldt is...

Cris Jacoba, MD, the Chief Retina Fellow at Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, was one of four winners of the 2021 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) EyeWiki® Resident and Fellows-in-Training contest for his contributing article "Diabetic Macular Ischemia."Dr. Jacoba is invited to...