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The AAVCOVID vaccine program, led by Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, is a unique gene-based vaccine approach for COVID-19. It uses an adeno-associated virus (AAV)—a...

Rohan Bir Singh, MD, a fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, received a 2020 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Science Communication Training Fellowship. The competitive, one-year program empowers early career scientists to communicate their complex...

Announcing the HMPA Mini MBA 2020 Fellowship awardees Dr Chukwuemeka Okoro Dr Jiska van der Reest Dr Saumya Gupta We look forward to sharing your experiences after the program! Interview in September 2020 following completion of the program: With "Emeka" Chukwuemeka Okoro Where did you do your PhD...

A record number of registrants attended the recent Comprehensive Otolaryngology Continuing Medical Education (CME) Course hosted recently by the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. Seventy-five registrants representing 16 countries attended the April...

Lei Su MD PhD has been selected as recipient of the American Diabetes Association’ s Pregnancy & Reproductive Health Interest Group 2021 Clinical/ Epidemiology Abstract Award for the Patti Lab abstract below. He will receive the award on June 26 (via Zoom). Congratulations, team! Abstract #: #2021-A...

Add News Links June 2, 2021 Lei Su MD PhD has been selected as recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s Pregnancy & Reproductive Health Interest Group 2021 Clinical/ Epidemiology Abstract Award for the Patti Lab abstract below. He will receive the award on June 26 (via Zoom). Congratulations...

Nine Harvard Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) faculty have been invited to help the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) determine its research focus for the next five years. Julie G. Arenberg, MS, PhD, Jeffrey R. Holt, PhD, Sharon Kujawa, MS, PhD, M...

Alison Barton's paper on whole-exome imputation and subsequent association and fine-mapping analyses in UK Biobank ( Barton et al. 2021 Nat Genet) is now published -- congratulations, Alison! Imputation is a statistical approach that leverages genetic data from a reference panel to enable analysis...

Our papers exploring mosaic chromosomal alterations in UK Biobank ( N~500K; Loh et al. 2020 Nature) and BioBank Japan ( N~200K; Terao et al. 2020 Nature) are now online at Nature. Highlights of these studies include discovery of several new risk loci at which acquired mutations systematically...

Kinga M. Bujakowska, PhD, a molecular geneticist and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness 2020 RPB International Research Collaborators Award. The award will provide $75,000 of support for her joint research project with...