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Joint Postdoctoral Research Fellow position available at Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School:Position Description: The laboratories of Drs. Lois Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Zhongjie Fu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical...

Today, the steadfast vision of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) is to be the preeminent worldwide source of advances and leaders in preserving and restoring hearing, balance, and voice as well as curing benign and malignant diseases of the...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Alex Cuenca Lab at BCH The Cuenca lab at Boston Children’s Hospital is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow that is interested in innate immunity, allograft immunity, and therapeutics designed to delay allograft rejection/generate allograft...

Aging TRACTS (ATRACTS) is a new study that seeks to learn about brain and behavioral changes in middle aged and older Veterans. We hope to better understand the impact combat exposure has on brain function and risk of Alzheimer’s Disease in individuals who have been deployed. We will examine whether...

Virtual TRACTS Moves the ten hour testing day at the VA Hospital into three online sessions from the comfort of your home. One, you will meet with a research assistant and complete a series of questionnaires to provide our psychologists with important background information about your military...

Dear Fellow Postdocs: Join us with BPDA & HMPDA to hear from three PhDs who transitioned from bench work to Environmental Health & Safety, supporting the essential needs of life science labs in Boston. When: Dec 13th, 2022, 12-1 pm, Tuesday Where : 240 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, HMS Cannon Room...

We recently identified GDF15 as a hormone released in response to hypoglycemia, which may contribute to symptoms experienced during hypoglycemia. This paper was published in Cell Reports Medicine in March 2026 (Pubmed, PMID 41806840). Congratulations to first author Rafael Ferraz-Bannitz PhD and the...

Until the approval of Luxturna®, there were no definitive treatments for any IRDs. Today, with the success of Luxturna®, preliminary results from therapies currently under investigation, and an expanding therapeutic toolkit, we have good reason for optimism. We envision a future in which gene...

Applications to Other Diseases The same types of genetic strategies currently being tested for IRDs are also being tested and beginning to receive regulatory approvals in other areas of medicine. For example, the FDA has approved both gene-augmentation therapy and antisense oligonucleotide therapy...

In this issue of eye Insights, we explore posterior uveitis and its varied etiologies. Inside, you’ll find common causes, tips for diagnosing posterior uveitis, and treatment techniques. Inside Message from Editor-in-Chief What is Posterior Uveitis Diagnosis Treatment Checkpoint Inhibitors Editor-in...