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Evangelos Gragoudas, MD, will once again offer an award for outstanding work in retina published by a Mass. Eye and Ear Trainee. For 2019, there will again be two $5,000 prizes, one for clinical work and one for basic or translational. Competition Rules You must be a current resident, clinical...

A clinical research team led by Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH , the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, have developed a biomaterial for corneal repair and regeneration that could...

Alice R. McPherson, MD, a Harvard Ophthalmology alumna and one of the world's leading vitreoretinal specialists, has been recognized with the inaugural Retina Hall of Fame Award for her pioneering contributions in the retina field. Dr. McPherson received the award at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the...

Cataract Master, the cataract surgical training tool created at Mass. Eye and Ear in 2012 by John I. Loewenstein, MD , Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Clinical Chief of Ophthalmology at Mass. Eye and Ear, and former Harvard Ophthalmology faculty member Bonnie An Henderson, MD, is...

Congratulations to the following Harvard Ophthalmology Faculty and Trainees on recieving ARVO Travel Grants: Dina B. K. Abusamra, PhD, Clinical Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear Saghar Bagheri, MD, Clinical Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear Karen Chang, PhD, Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and...

A new study led by a research team from Harvard Medical School and Mass. Eye and Ear, describes how bacteria adapted to the modern hospital environment and repeatedly cause antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections. This study examined one of the first sustained hospital outbreaks of a multidrug...

Instructor in Ophthalmology Emily Wiecek, OD, PhD, and research fellow Zhengping (Ping) Hu each received Career-Starter Grants from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. With support from this award, Emily will continue studying how anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia affect peripheral visual...

A large-scale, collaborative, systems biology approach is needed to expedite the discovery of treatments for dry age-related macular degeneration, according to a report by a working group of scientists appointed by the National Advisory Eye Council (NAEC) that includes Joan. W. Miller, MD, Chair of...

The Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund has awarded $700,000 in grants to support research projects led by the following faculty: Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center Paolo Silva, MD, will study computational fluid dynamics modeling of the human retinal microvasculature in order to...