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Farewell, Khurram

After two years as a Research Fellow, Khurram will be commencing his clinical training as an intern at Mount Auburn Hospital before joining the BIDMC Anesthesia residency program next year. We wish him luck for his future endeavors!

2015 Annual Meeting & Alumni Reunion

More than 300 Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology faculty, alumni, and trainees gathered for a three-day festival of events that included the Annual Meeting and Alumni Reunion, tours of Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute, a celebratory dinner, and visits to the...

8 things your eyes reveal about your health

Scott Greenstein, MD was quoted in an article for the Huffington Post about ways that certain ocular problems can be signs of underlying issues. For example, if the eyelids are unable to close, this may be a symptom of facial nerve paralysis, which can be a feature of Lyme Disease. Additionally...

Targeting the Immune System to Prevent Vision Loss

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...

SuperVision+ Goggles App Provides Low Cost Solution for the Visually Impaired

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...

Welcome, Summer Interns

A warm welcome to all our summer interns who are joining us this year. We look forward to the rigorous and rewarding months with you all. Among those joining us are Ruby Feng, Jeffrey Bortman, Daawar Chaudhry, and Alex Woltersom.

Dr. Fernandez-Godino Receives BrightFocus Foundation Award

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...

Addressing Opioid Use Disorder among LGBTQ Populations

By: Michael GirouardMD/MBA Candidate Class of 2020Harvard Medical School & Harvard Business School Opioid use disorder (OUD) has reached alarming rates in the United States. As a clerkship student rotating through the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (a Harvard teaching affiliate), I was struck by how...

Investigators Receive Bertarelli Collaborative Research Award

Artur Indzhykulian, MD, PhD, and Anne Takesian, PhD, of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass. Eye and Ear and both Assistant Professors of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medcial School, have both received Bertarelli Collaborative Research Awards within the Bertarelli Program in Translational...