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Zhigang He, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, received a 2022 Vision Restoration Initiative Award from the Gilbert Family Foundation. These awards support the development of therapies to restore...

Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, the Charles Edward Whitten Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, received an Honor Award from the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) for her many contributions to the Society's scientific programs at its past annual meetings. Dr. Sobrin was formally...

Gena Heidary, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has been selected for the Kern Faculty Fellowship for Leading Change for Humanistic Healthcare. The Fellowship, co-sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Kern Institute for...

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Sherleen Chen, MD, received this year's Simmons Lessell Excellence in Education Award. Presented during our clinical graduation ceremony on June 17, 2021, the award recognizes faculty who have made—and continue to make—sustained and profound contributions to...

At the recent Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO) Annual Business Meeting, Joan W. Miller, MD , Chief of Harvard Ophthalmology, was voted in as President-Elect of the Association. Dr. Miller previously served on the AUPO Board of Trustees as a Trustee-At-Large.

Daisy Shu, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, is one of five recipients of the 2021 Postdoctoral Award for Outstanding Research presented at the Pathobiology for Investigators, Students, and Academicians (PISA) Virtual Meeting, organized...

Information for this release was provided by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Rockville, Md. — Vision scientists may have discovered how to reduce pedestrian collisions in crowded and chaotic open space environments like bus terminals, shopping malls and city plazas...

The Lions VisionGift eye bank has been instrumental in supporting Mass. Eye and Ear’s educational initiatives. In the past two years, the nonprofit has donated more than $50,000 in practice tissue for Harvard Ophthalmology residents and Mass. Eye and Ear fellows. This generous gift has helped...

New research by Larry Benowitz, PhD, and colleagues shows how zinc regulates the survival of retinal ganglion cells, and by binding it (zinc chelation), can help the optic nerve to regenerate. Their findings, published in PNAS (January, 2017), could potentially lead to therapies that help patients...

Congratulations to our Chief Resident and senior residents, who have matched with outstanding fellowship programs: Durga Borkar, MD, Vitreoretinal Fellow, Wills Eye Hospital Eric Gaier, MD, PhD, Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellow, Mass. Eye and Ear/HMS Chief Resident Seanna Grob, MD, MAS, ASOPRS Ophthalmic...