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Michael A. Sandberg, PhD retired from Mass. Eye and Ear at the end of September. Dr. Sandberg was recruited by Dr. Eliot Berson to the Berman-Gund Laboratory for the Study of Retinal Degenerations and the Electroretinography Service (now the Inherited Retinal Disorders Service) at Massachusetts Eye...

Boston 25 News presented a snapshot of TRACTS and the work we have accomplished thus far. Click here to read the full story.

Sushil Upadhyayula joins our lab thanks to the Harvard Research Scholar Initiative. Sushil is a student at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, and he will be working with Kamil Slowikowski on analysis of single cell RNA-seq data from CD4 T cells.

The Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund awarded 2017-18 grants to several Harvard Ophthalmology affiliates and Boston-area research institutions. Each institution received $160,000, which supported the following projects: Mass. Eye and Ear: Kip Connor, PhD: “Targeting the immune system in retinal...

Maan Alkharashi, MD, received funds in the in the amount of $1750 per patient over one year for his involvement in the clinical study with the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group, "Binocular Dig Rush Game Treatment for Amblyopia” funded by the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes...

The following individuals have matched into the Harvard Ophthalmology Residency Program as the class of 2022: Sila Bal, University of Pennsylvania-Perelman School of Medicine Carolina Chiou, Harvard Medical School Jacob Cox, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Inês Laíns, MD, Faculty of...

The Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School recently celebrated the promotion of Mark A. Varvares, MD, FACS, to Professor of Otolaryngology. Dr. Varvares is the Associate Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Dr. Varvares...

Jessica Halem, program manager of the LGBT Office within the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at HMS, shares some of the ways the Harvard Medical School community is working to reduce health care disparities for transgender patients. Efforts range from medical education and...

New nonprofit organization will bring treatments to clinical trial for people at risk for blindness due to ultra-rare inherited retinal diseases. Boston, Mass. — Scientists and advocates today announced the formation of Odylia Therapeutics, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to creating gene...

Self-swab testing for HPV could be a good alternative to pap tests for transmasculine people, says Sari Reisner, principal investigator of the study and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, also in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H...