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Improved delivery vector better penetrates the inner ear, also restores balance in a mouse model of Usher syndrome Boston, Mass. — In the summer of 2015, a team at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported restoring rudimentary hearing in genetically deaf mice using gene therapy...

Jennie Pouget is visiting us from the University of Toronto, where she is an MD/PhD student under Jo Knight’s mentorship. She has been awarded the prestigious Weston Fellowship and the Fulbright scholarship to come and work with us for the coming year.

MillennialEYE named Kathryn M. Hatch, MD, an “Outstanding female leader in ophthalmology” in their January/February 2017, and published a profile about her career and work. MillennialEYE is an all-digital publication and online community for the future leaders in ophthalmology. The full story can be...

Boston, Mass. — It’s the part of the eye exam everyone hates: the pupil-dilating eye drops. The drops work by opening the pupil and preventing the iris from constricting in response to light and are often used for routine examination and photography of the back of the eye. The drops sting, can take...

Five Ophthalmology residents have been selected for 2017-2018 Heed fellowships by the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation and the Society of Heed Fellows . This accounts for nearly 25% of of all awarded Heed fellowships this year. Congratulations to: Durga Borkar, MD Eric Gaier, MD, PhD James (Tony) Stefater...

Joan W. Miller, MD, has been appointed to the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO) Board of Trustees. As Chair of Harvard Ophthalmology since 2003, Dr. Miller is committed driving innovation and quality in academic medicine, and strongly supports mentoring and developing...

In March 2017, Michael Gilmore, PhD, Director of the Harvard Infectious Disease Institute, chaired a blue ribbon panel that reviewed the most promising applications for the Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic Challenge--a $20 million federal prize competition to develop innovative, rapid point-of...