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BOSTON – The Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology has been granted a $30,000 Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship for Daniel Diaz-Aguilar. This grant will allow Diaz-Aguilar to spend a year studying the mechanisms behind the advancement of age-related...

Contact: Suzanne Day
suzanne_day@meei.harvard.edu  
617-573-3897 

BOSTON – Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded several grants in 2015 to Massachusetts Eye and Ear and the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology, which will support research on the causes, treatment, and prevention of blinding diseases.

RPB renewed the...

Aubrey L. Gilbert (Boston Children's Hospital/Mass. Eye and Ear), a clinical fellow in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, received the 2015/2016 Fight for Sight (FFS)-North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS) Research Award. This joint award from FFS and NANOS  funds research for residents or fellows in ophthalmology or neurology who...

Lois E. H. Smith (Boston Children's Hospital) received the 2015 Heed-Gutman Award from the Society of Heed Fellows at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 14, 2015.

The prestigious...

BOSTON (October 19, 2015) -- Joan Whitten Miller, MD, Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been elected to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Dr. Miller is an internationally recognized expert on retinal disorders, including age-related macular...

Evangelos Gragoudas, MD, presented the J. Donald M. Gass lecture at the Retina Society Annual Meeting in Paris, France on October 8, 2015. A pioneer and a world authority on the diagnosis and management of intraocular tumors and retinal disease, Dr. Gragoudas and colleagues developed the use of proton beam irradiation for uveal melanoma...

We are thrilled that Mass. Eye and Ear, the primary affiliate hospital of HMS Ophthalmology, and Mass General Hospital, where we lead the Ophthalmology Department, have been ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals 2015-2016.

This year’s report ranked Mass. Eye and Ear’s Department of Otolaryngology as the best program in the country,...

More than 300 Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology faculty, alumni, and trainees gathered for a three-day festival of events that included the Annual Meeting and Alumni Reunion, tours of Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute, a celebratory dinner, and visits to the Harvard Art Museum and Harvard Museum of Natural History from May 29 to 31. Annual...

Alex Hwang, PhD, won the Muse Award, a sub-category competition of the Wearables in Healthcare Pilot Challenge by Medstro.

Dr. Hwang's idea was to use the Muse, which is a compact version of an electroencephalogram that...

In the 2015 Annual Meeting of the the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), HMS Ophthalmology faculty and trainees will present 255 abstracts, including 35 papers, 188 posters, 3 award lectures, 4 educational courses, 6 mini symposia, 8 special interest groups, 2 cross sectional group sessions, and 4 workshops. 

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OCTOBER 24, 2014 (Boston, MA): The Bertarelli Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering a collaborative program between Harvard Medical School and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, has announced a new set of grants worth $3.6 million for five...

World-renowned scientific award, often called the "Nobel Prize of Vision," recognizes the groundbreaking development of anti-angiogenic therapy for retinal disease

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BOSTON (May 20, 2014) –Two prominent faculty members of the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology and Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Schepens Eye Research Institute were selected by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) to receive prestigious 2015 ARVO Achievement Awards. These honors were announced during the ARVO 2014 Annual Meeting held May 4 through 8 in Orlando, Florida.

Patricia D’Amore, PhD, MBA, FARVO, is...

The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology takes pride in actively participating in the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). The ARVO 2014 Annual Meeting took place in Orlando, FL from May 4th through 8th. HMS faculty, trainees and research fellows will present a total of 261 abstracts (48 papers, 184 research posters, 5 educational courses, 4 symposia, 4 mini symposia, 12 special interest groups, 2 cross sectional group...