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First-year Harvard Ophthalmology resident Wendy Liu, MD, PhD, received the 2018 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund her research on mechanosensitive ion channels in primary open-angle glaucoma. She will complete the project under the guidance of her mentor Janey...

The Department of Ophthalmology was, once again, well represented at this year’s Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) Imaging in the Eye Conference and Annual Meeting, held April 28 through May 3 in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 145 faculty and trainees participated as course...

Endre A. Balazs, a pioneer in viscoelastic therapeutics and a leader in hyaluronan and vitreous research, passed away on August 29th at the age of 95. Dr. Balazs had a central role in establishing what is now Schepens Eye Research Institute, and was awarded the Institute's Distinguished Alumnus...

Joan Miller was quoted in an article on the increase of AMD drugs in the past decade. September 3, 2015 Investor's Business Daily

The September 2015 issue of Eye Insights™, a clinical advisory newsletter published by Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, is now available. This issue focuses on the Boston KPro, specifically on how to manage complications associated with implantation, postoperative...

Evangelos Gragoudas, MD, presented the J. Donald M. Gass lecture at the Retina Society Annual Meeting in Paris, France on October 8, 2015. A pioneer and a world authority on the diagnosis and management of intraocular tumors and retinal disease, Dr. Gragoudas and colleagues developed the use of...

BOSTON (October 19, 2015) -- Joan Whitten Miller, MD, Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been elected to membership in the prestigious...

Clifford Kim received the RPB Medical Student Fellowship in the amount of $30,000 over one year. This award allows gifted medical students to devote time to the pursuit of a research project. Further Reading: Mass. Eye and Ear Press Release

Mass. Eye and Ear was included in Boston Magazine's "Boston Hospitals with N iche Specialties," as the only hospital with a 24/7 eye emergency room in New England. See the full article in Boston Magazine.

The January 2015 issue of HMS Ophthalmology's clinical advisory newsletter, Eye Insights, is now available. This issue describes biomedical breakthroughs in anti-VEGF research that have changed how we diagnose, treat, and save vision for patients with retinal disease. See the full text here (HTML &...