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A key foundation partner to Harvard Ophthalmology, the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund (MLERF) has selected several faculty to receive research awards. For academic year 2021-22, MLERF will provide $420,000 in funding to support innovative research projects across our affiliates. Beetham Eye...

Effective July 1, 2021, Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, will serve as the next incumbent of the Solman and Libe Friedman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. This professorship was created in 2011 to honor the parents of Ephraim Friedman, MD, a former retina specialist and researcher in...

Russell L. Woods, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, is the 2021 recipient of the Low Vision Research Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) and the Lions Clubs International...

Ines Lains, MD, PhD, a PGY-4 ophthalmology resident, received the Metabolomics Society Best Presentation Award for her top-scoring oral abstract, “Plasma metabolomic profiles of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) progression." This work contributes to our understanding of AMD progression and may...

Three Boston Children's Hospital ophthalmology research trainees were recognized for their research and teaching by the hospital's Ophthalmology Basic Research Group at its annual Seminar event. Yohei Tomita, MD, PhD, a research fellow, was recognized with the 2020-2021 Best Teaching Award and is...

Glaucoma is a progressive, irreversible optic neuropathy with variable presentation and clinical course and there is currently no way to pre-symptomatically distinguish patients at risk of severe and progressive disease from those individuals unlikely to develop glaucoma-related vision loss. Nazlee...