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Vision researchers at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology have taken a first step in solving a vexing problem: how to preserve photoreceptor cells and avoid irreversible vision loss in patients following retinal detachment. Degeneration of photoreceptors, the...

Gang Luo, PhD, an Associate Scientist of Mass. Eye and Ear/Schepens Eye Institute, recently created the SuperVision+ Goggle app to provide a low cost solution for head mounted vision enhancement devices for the visually impaired. The free app for iPhones (iOS) is designed to be used together with 3D...

Rosario Fernandez-Godino, PhD, MSc, has been selected to receive the BrightFocus Foundation Award. The award, presented by the foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research Program to investigators who have generated promising preliminary data on potential treatments for macular degeneration, will...

A study led by Eleftherios Paschalis, PhD, describes a mechanism by which patients with acute ocular injuries become susceptible to progressive neurodegeneration long after the injury has taken place. Published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Paschalis and colleagues demonstrate...

In Nature, Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass. Eye and Ear, discusses increasing the efficiency of gene therapies by manipulating the viral vectors that transport genes into cells. He also talks...

Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Research at HMS, and Co-Director of the Harvard Ophthalmology AMD Center of Excellence, received the Barbara McNeil Award for Exceptional Service...

Luk H. Vandenberghe, PhD , Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass. Eye and Ear, has been named the first incumbent of the Grousbeck Family Chair in Gene Therapy at Mass. Eye and Ear. Dr. Vandenberghe is one of the world’s...

Saghar Bagheri, MD, Clinical Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear under the mentorship of Dr. Demetrios Vavvas, has been invited to participate in the Members-in-Training Outstanding Poster Award Competition at the ARVO Annual Meeting. She received one of the top five scored abstracts in the Retina...

Konstantina Sampani, MD , Clinical Research Fellow at The Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, received ARVO's 2019 Science Communications Training Fellowship. The one year program - awarded to just 20 ARVO members - trains young scientists to become more effective communicators of...

Nazlee Zebardast, MD— a Harvard Medical School Instructor in Ophthalmology and glaucoma specialist at Mass. Eye and Ear—has been selected for the Harvard Vision Clinician Scientist Development Program (K12). This program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, will provide a customized and...