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We're very excited to share our ongoing work at ASHG this October! Alison Barton and Margaux Hujoel will present platform talks on penetrance of disease variants and CNV associations in UK Biobank, Maxwell Sherman will present a plenary talk on somatic mutations in cancer, and Ronen Mukamel will...

For the second consecutive year, the Harvard Combined Program in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) was voted the top OHNS residency program in the nation by Residency Navigator from Doximity. Doximity determined its 2021-2022 rankings from a survey of over 30,000 U.S. physicians. The...

A key foundation partner to Harvard Ophthalmology, the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund (MLERF) has selected several faculty to receive research awards. For academic year 2021-22, MLERF will provide $420,000 in funding to support innovative research projects across our affiliates. Beetham Eye...

M. Charles Liberman, PhD, director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently awarded the James B. Snow Jr., MD, Tinnitus Research Award for his outstanding contributions to advancing tinnitus research. Named in honor of James B. Snow, Jr., MD, the first director of the...

Harvard Medical School Instructor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Regan Bergmark, MD, FARS, who is also an Associate Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, was selected as the 2021 H. Richard Nesson Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her project, “Disparities in Timely Access to...

Effective July 1, 2021, Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, will serve as the next incumbent of the Solman and Libe Friedman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. This professorship was created in 2011 to honor the parents of Ephraim Friedman, MD, a former retina specialist and researcher in...

Dear MD postdocs, We are organizing a virtual community meet on the 6th of October! With this meet we hope to connect the MD postdoc members where they can get to know each other and share their unique experiences. This would also give us all a chance to get to know the challenges and difficulties...

National Postdoc Appreciation Week celebrates and appreciates the wonderful contributions that postdocs make to research and discovery! We at HMPA appreciate you! Thank you for all your hard work! Please see our appreciation video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m7HVo3beZMI

National Postdoc Association Event myPostdoc Monthly: Insurance 101 Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. ET Register here: https://www.nationalpostdoc.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1556647&group=&utm_source=Higher%20Logic&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Higher%20Logic%20Email Accessing care...

Ronen Mukamel and Bob Handsaker's paper on phenotypic effects of protein-coding variable-number-of-tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphisms ( Mukamel*, Handsaker* et al. 2021 Science) is now published -- congratulations, Ronen and Bob! This exciting collaboration with Steve McCarroll's lab found that some...