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Laura De Lima Xavier, MD, will be presenting a poster entitled "Differences in Brain Activity among Different Voice Tremor Phenotypes" at the 1st International Tremor Congress at Columbia University, New York, May 11-12, 2018.

Researchers at TRACTS have been able to control for the veterans’ common comorbidities, such as sleep disorders, PTSD and chronic pain, to tease out the impact of blast exposure on brain physiology and function. Click here to read the full article in U.S. Medicine.

The Harvard Ophthalmology Mentoring Program has been recognized with the 2019 Program Award for a Culture of Excellence in Mentoring (PACEM) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This award was established to recognize departments, divisions, offices or programs for their efforts to foster innovation and...

Elvira Isganaitis, MD, MPH, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, discusses her research with Harvard Catalyst. “The health of both parents (not just the mother) may influence childhood health outcomes”, says Dr. Isganaitis. What is the background for this study? Response: The concept that...

Harvard Medical School Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery faculty Dr. Konstantina Stankovic and Dr. Jeffrey Holt discussed the latest research behind hearing loss reversal in a new podcast recorded from the The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Research Symposium on Hearing. Both...

We are excited to share a new preprint, " Large mosaic copy number variations confer autism risk" (Sherman et al.), reporting mosaic CNVs we identified in genotyping data from the Simons Simplex Collection. We demonstrate a significant burden of large (>4 Mb) mosaic CNVs in ASD probands compared to...

Daisy Shu, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, is the recipient of a 2019 Fight for Sight Post-Doctoral Award. This grant award provides $22,500 in funding to individuals with a doctorate who are interested in academic careers in basic or...

Mass Eye and Ear researchers Dr. Kristina Simonyan and Dr. Davide Valeriani were awarded a grant from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University to organize a virtual seminar on September 10-11, 2020, which explored Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for transforming the...

This paper, " Mixed-model association for biobank-scale datasets" (Loh et al. 2018 Nat Genet), explores best practices for genome-wide association analyses in very large cohorts.

A recent article published in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery showed evidence that 1 in 7 children in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have signs of hearing loss that could be attributed to noise exposure from portable music players (PMPs). The association of PMP use with hearing loss has...