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Patients with High-Risk Macular Degeneration Show Improvement with High-Dose Statin Treatment
A phase I/II clinical trial at Massachusetts Eye and Ear found that some patients taking high doses of atorvastatin (cholesterol-lowering medication) had complete resolution of lipid deposits in the dry form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the...
Faculty Visit to Haiti
The Office of Global Surgery and Health recently coordinated the second faculty visit to Haiti State University Hospital in Port-au-Prince to work with the residency program there. Roberto Pineda II, MD, and Shizuo Mukai, MD, returned after their initial faculty visit in June 2015. The focus of this...
Participate in a Sleep Study
Healthy Participants: The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is looking for healthy participants without psychiatric or medical conditions, ages 18-45 who are interested in participating in a study on the effects of repeated exposure to insomnia symptoms. The study investigates the relationship...
Welcome to the Harvard Digestive Disease Center
Welcome to the Harvard Digestive Diseases Center (HDDC) The HDDC is an NIH-funded Center that serves a broad community of scientists conducting basic and translational research relevant to the gastrointestinal tract. The HDDC facilitates multidisciplinary research and collaboration among independent...
Welcome to the Harvard Digestive Disease Center
Welcome to the Harvard Digestive Diseases Center (HDDC) The HDDC is an NIH-funded Center that serves a broad community of scientists conducting basic and translational research relevant to the gastrointestinal tract. The HDDC facilitates multidisciplinary research and collaboration among independent...
Epithelial and Stem Cells
The HDDC members active in this group are basic cell and developmental biologists, including a strong group of stem cell and tissue engineering biologists, who are broadening and deepening the longstanding focus of the HDDC on intestinal epithelial cell biology. Leaders: David Breault, MD, PhD &...
Mucosal Immunology
Theme 2 investigators are basic scientists probing the cellular and molecular basis of adaptive and innate immunity critical to mucosal defense. Given the intense relationship between the immune system and lumenal microbes that plays out across the intestinal epithelial barrier, it is not surprising...