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Dear Postdocs, join us for the very first HMPA's virtual game night on October 1st 2020! We will be featuring Jackbox games Drawful 2 and FibbageXL! Read more about the game rules and register on https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hmpas-jackbox-game-night-tickets-122232529….

Links Here: Friday, November 6th, 6-7 PM https://harvard.zoom.us/j/98483899671 Friday, December 4th, 9-10 AM https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94389326971 More times next year: Jan 8 th 6 -7 pm: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95797075738 Feb 5 th 9-10 am: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97564263999 Mar 5 th 6-7 pm...

Faculty member Jennifer K. Sun, MD, MPH, has been selected by the Macula Society to receive the 2021 Young Investigator Award. This prestigious honor is awarded to an individual under 50 years of age whose work gives high promise of a notable advance in the clinical treatment of disorders of the eye...

When Victor Owoseni arrived to medical school, the first thing he noticed was the lack of physicians who looked like him. In his first publication, he advocates for increased Black representation in academic medicine. Read his article here: http://nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2027850?af=R&rss...

Mass Eye and Ear Press Release Boston, Mass. — Researchers at Mass Eye and Ear have developed a unique diagnostic tool that can detect dystonia from MRI scans, the first technology of its kind to provide an objective diagnosis of the disorder. Dystonia is a potentially disabling neurological...

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...

Five disruptive scientific advancements from Mass General Brigham have been awarded Innovation Discovery Grants (IDG) in the 2020 round of awards, as the highly competitive IDG program exceeds $3.5 million in grants since inception. Each of the five potential patient health and healthcare delivery...

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...

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...

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...