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Findings may have significant therapeutic implications for AMD, the most common cause of elderly blindness in the developed world Boston, Mass. — A compound of specific bioactive products from a major family of enzymes reduced the severity of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a preclinical...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear’s P30 core grant competitive renewal (PI: Pablo Argüeso, PhD) at $3,940,010 over five years. This critical funding supports four shared core resources at 20 Staniford Street: Animal Resource, Flow...

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...

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...