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The AAVCOVID vaccine program, a novel gene-based vaccine strategy led by Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass Eye and Ear, that utilizes an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector, was granted an...

A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Mass Eye and Ear have successfully restored vision in elderly mice by turning back the clock on their aged nerve cells in the retina to recapture their youthful function. The team used an adeno-associated virus as a vehicle to deliver into...

Alice Lorch, MD, MPH, Director of the Harvard Ophthalmology Residency Training Program, has received critical grant funding totaling more than $430,000 from Mass General Brigham's United Against Racism along with the Mass General Executive Committee on Community Health, Digital Federal Credit Union...

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...

Celebrated award honors distinguished achievements in ophthalmology Joan W. Miller, MD, the David Glendenning Cogan Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been named the 2018...

In a first step toward cracking the genetics of common strabismus, Elizabeth C. Engle, MD; David Hunter, MD, PhD; Mary C. Whitman, MD, PhD; and chief orthoptist Sarah MacKinnon contributed to a study, published in IOVS, that identified significant gene associations in strabismus and suggested a...

On November 30, several faculty members participated in the New England Ophthalmological Society (NEOS) meeting held at the Back Bay Event Center. Michael Yoon, MD, moderated the morning session, Iatrogenic Complications—Neuro-Ophthalmology and Oculoplastics. This session included talks by Linda...

Qin Liu, MD, PhD, received a Sponsored Research Agreement award from Casebia Therapeutics in the amount of $721,702 over two years from her project, "Gene editing for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa." Hajirah Saeed, MD, received a K23 grant from the National Institutes of Health in the...