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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...

Nurhan Torun, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Chief, Division of Ophthalmology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, received the 2020 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Academy Award for demonstrating the highest commitment to the Academy community through participation, service...

Several ophthalmology faculty, staff, and trainees were honored with Partners HealthCare Partners in Excellence Awards for their contributions to Mass. Eye and Ear. These awards represent the annual, system-wide employee recognition program. Members of each organization nominate individual employees...

Massachusetts Eye and Ear is entering into an exclusive licensing agreement with Biogen to develop a potential treatment for inherited retinal degeneration due to mutations in the PRPF31 gene, which are among the most common cause for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa. Previous lab-based...

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rossin, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 2020 Thomas J. Madden Fellowship in Retina. Dr. Rossin, who served as the AY 2018-2019 Chief Resident and Director of the Ocular Trauma Service, is completing a two-year vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at Mass. Eye and Ear under Dean...

The HMPA community has been significantly impacted by the tremendous changes brought by 2020. To varying extents, the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, visa/ international travel restrictions, and social justice movement have affected our physical and mental health, as well as the flow of our work lives...

More and more scientists are jumping on board the social media train. For those who want to get started on social media and build their own following, register for the upcoming American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) webinar titled "Promote Yourself and Your Science on Social Media"...

We are excited to share a new preprint, " Learning the mutational landscape of the cancer genome" (Sherman*, Yaari*, Priebe* et al.). This work, a collaboration with Bonnie Berger's group at MIT, developed a deep-learning model to predict cancer-specific neutral mutation rates at kilobase-scale...

Please check out our HMPA Welcome Video on YouTube! As a committee, we are dedicated to supporting and enriching your postdoctoral journey at Harvard Medical School through awesome events tailored to improving your professional development, entrepreneurship, advocacy, outreach and of course, fun...