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The latest issue of Boston KPro News is available. The new issue features: FDA Approval Obtained for the Boston Keratoprosthesis Type I Lucia Design Integrating a Pressure Sensor in the Boston KPro Boston KPro Usage Chart Finding an Optimal Substitute for Human Donor Corneas King Khaled Eye...

A recent meta-analysis, led by Deeba Husain, MD , suggests that AMD patients present distinct plasma metabolomic profiles, which vary with disease severity. After analyzing blood samples of their 491 patients from two cohorts–one in Boston and one in Coimbra, Portugal–they found that metabolites...

Mass. Eye and Ear fellow Stephan Ong Tone, MDCM, PhD, FRCSC, is the co-winner (with Nakul Shekhawat, MD, MPH, of the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University) of the 2019 Claes H. Dohlman MD, PhD, Fellowship Award. The award recognizes outstanding clinical fellows training in the area of...

Several faculty and alumni have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Congratulations to alumnus and part-time faculty member Anthony Adamis, MD; faculty member Elizabeth Engle, MD; and alumna Julia Haller, MD. Established by the National Academy of Sciences, the NAM is...

Thirty-two Harvard Ophthalmology/Mass. Eye and Ear clinical trainees graduated on June 21. The ceremony, held at Mass. Eye and Ear, celebrated eight Harvard Ophthalmology residents, the AY 2017-2018 chief resident, and two optometry residents, as well as 21 clinical fellows from Mass. Eye and Ear...

Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH , the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has been awarded a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein Innovation Award in the amount of $300,000 over three...

Recently released, a short video shares the journey of a series of Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) patients who were kind enough to allow us to tell their story. David Hunter, MD, PhD, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at BCH, noticed a few years ago that many adults with strabismus (eye misalignment) are...

More than 75 Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and trainees from our affiliates—including Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Mass. Eye and Ear, Boston Children’s Hospital, and VA Boston Healthcare System—participated in the American Academy of...

Boston, Mass. — Massachusetts Eye and Ear made medical history on Tuesday by performing the first post-FDA approval gene therapy for patients with a form of inherited blindness. The occasion marks the beginning of a new era in medicine, as it is the first time any FDA-approved gene therapy has been...

Patricia A. D'Amore, PhD, MBA, Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research at Harvard Ophthalmology, was recognized by Regis College with the Shining Example Award for her exceptional contributions to ophthalmology research and her continued support of student scholarships at Regis College. A...