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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...

Precision medicine involves using genetic information specific to a patient’s tumor to choose the most efficacious therapy for that individual. Identifying mechanisms that make certain tumors responsive to a particular drug, but not others, known as biomarker discovery, is vital to precision...

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...

Fourth-year Harvard Otolaryngology resident Alessandra Colaianni, MD, recently published an editorial in the New York Times. This article shares her experience with a patient who had a rare disorder known as toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome. This condition is a severe skin reaction, most often...

We have released two preprints exploring mosaic chromosomal alterations in UK Biobank ( N~500K; Loh et al. bioRxiv) and BioBank Japan ( N~200K; Terao et al. bioRxiv). Highlights of these studies include discovery of several new risk loci at which acquired mutations systematically duplicate inherited...

A lovely range of events happening around the HMS community in honor of Pride Month. These events are a great way to connect with the community at your hospital and to learn more about LGBTQ health equity. If you are looking for a book to understand the history of the movement we are a part of, I...

Research led by Hideko Heidi Nakajima, MD, PhD, featuring members of the Nakajima Ear Mechanics Lab Stefan Raufer, PhD, and John J. Guinan, PhD, reveals newly discovered mechanics in human hearing. Published June 24 in PNAS, the study calls into question the classic view that cochlear mechanics are...

New study suggests ear infections and conditions that cause chronic conductive hearing loss may lead to nerve degeneration when left untreated. Boston, Mass. — Chronic conductive hearing loss, which can result from middle-ear infections, has been linked to speech recognition deficits, according to...