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Boston, Mass. — Ula V. Jurkunas, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, and a resident of Winchester, Mass., has been selected to receive a 2017 ARVO Foundation/Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras...

Boston, Mass. — Massachusetts Eye and Ear opened a new ophthalmology (eye care) practice at 578 Main Street in Malden, Mass., on March 6. Mass. Eye and Ear, Malden is the hospital’s 19 th location designed to bring the expertise of Mass. Eye and Ear specialists to the surrounding greater Boston area...

Congratulations to our incoming optometric residents for AY 2017-2018: Jordan Davidner, New England College of Optometry Bonnie Wessler, University of Puerto Rico.

James Chodosh, MD, MPH, received a NIH R01 in the amount of $1.7M over four years for his project, "Immunopathogenesis of Adenovirus Keratitis." Tobias Elze, PhD, received a BrightFocus Award in the amount of $150,000 over two years for his project, "Computational Investigation of Glaucoma...

Jae-Hyun Jung, PhD, is the recipient of the 2017 Alice J. Adler Fellowship of the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear in the amount of $30,000 over one year for his project, “The best field expansion configuration for using multiplexing prism for homonymous hemianopia.” This award...

Findings may lead to the development of therapies to prevent damage to the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. Boston, Mass. — Chemical eye burns caused by alkali agents not only injure the front of the eye — the cornea, where the contact takes place — but also cause...

Survival of mass extinctions helps to explain near indestructible properties of hospital "superbugs" Boston, Mass. — Leading hospital “superbugs,” known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years — about the time when animals were first crawling onto land (and well...

Thirty Harvard Ophthalmology/Mass. Eye and Ear clinical trainees graduated on June 15. The ceremony, held at Mass. Eye and Ear, celebrated eight Harvard Ophthalmology residents, the AY 2016-2017 chief resident, and one optometry resident, as well as 20 clinical fellows from Mass. Eye and Ear, Joslin...

Ophthalmologists at Mass. Eye and Ear among most experienced nationwide to offer newly FDA-approved laser vision correction technology. Boston, Mass. — Ophthalmologists at Massachusetts Eye and Ear are now offering a new type of minimally-invasive laser vision correction, the ReLEx ® SMILE procedure...

Ula V. Jurkunas, MD , received a grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $3,431,841 over 4 years for her project, “Safety and Feasibility of Cultivated Autologous Limbal Epithelial Cell (CALEC) Transplantation in the Treatment of Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency.” This grant...