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eye Insights Issue 12: Nonorganic Vision Loss

In this issue of eye Insights, we take a close look at nonorganic vision loss(NVL). Inside, you’ll find techniques and tips for evaluating and managingpatients with NVL. Inside Message From the Editor-in-Chief Prevalence and Risk Factors Techniques For Evaluating Patients Tests for Visual Field Loss...

HMPA Book Club

Before closing the chapter for 2020, HMPA advocacy is organizing a book club based on requests from our recent survey. We echo your call for more meaningful, genuine conversations around difficult topics, where postdocs can openly share their experiences and thoughts. We hope to facilitate a safe...

ASD mosaic CNV paper published in Nature Neuroscience

Maxwell Sherman's paper on mosaic CNVs in autism ( Sherman et al. 2020 Nat Neurosci) is now published -- congratulations, Max! This work, a collaboration with Chris Walsh and Peter Park, implicated large mosaic copy number variants (CNVs) arising early in embryonic development as a likely...

HMPA Postdoc Buddies Program

Are you interested in making connections with other postdocs at HMS? Join the HMPA Postdoc Buddies program! Postdocs who sign up for the program will be paired via e-mail with another postdoc who has expressed similar interests, including stage of career, field of study, and physical location. You...

Gender fluidity: What it means and why support matters

Take a moment — yes, right now — to consider your gender. Do you identify as a woman, man, or another gender: essentially, how would you describe your gender identity? How do you show your gender to other people through how you look or act — in other words, your gender expression? And has your...

Nakul Singh, MD, MS, Recognized with Gragoudas-Folkman Prize

Nakul Singh, MD, MS, a PGY-3 ophthalmology resident, received the 2020 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund his research to “characterize the biomechanics of how ERMs and test the effect of netarsudil on inhibiting contraction.” He will complete the project under...

Scientists Reverse Age-Related Vision Loss, Eye Damage from Glaucoma in Mice

A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Mass Eye and Ear have successfully restored vision in elderly mice by turning back the clock on their aged nerve cells in the retina to recapture their youthful function. The team used an adeno-associated virus as a vehicle to deliver into...