# January 2014 January 01, 2014 ![eyeNews](/sites/g/files/omnuum9886/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/eye/files/eye-news_0.png?itok=MM1lJ0ar) [NEWS](#news) | [HONORS, AWARDS & GRANTS](#honors) | [PHILANTHROPY](#philanthropy) | [PRESS](#press) | [RECENT PUBLICATIONS](#pub) | [CALENDAR](/events/calendar) It’s hard to believe 2013 has come and gone. Our department had another busy year with great growth and significant milestones in every sphere of our mission ― from publishing the most thorough description of gene expression in the human retina to developing new technologies that better serve our patients and launching important new symposia. Some of these efforts will be highlighted in our upcoming issue of the HMS Department of Ophthalmology *Eye Witness* newsletter – look for it in your mailbox in late February. The year also brought new unification and collaborations campus-wide. In particular, our expanding Centers of Excellence and Institutes are contributing more and more to a stimulating environment that fosters creation, innovation, and discovery throughout the department and beyond. On the recruitment front, we hired eight new full-time faculty members to keep pace with the growing demands across the department. I’m also pleased to report that a robust focus on faculty development led to 28 new promotions and appointments ― nearly a dozen more than last fiscal year. Looking ahead to 2014, we have a busy agenda, including our second HMS Ophthalmology Annual Faculty Retreat, March 14-15th. I look forward to seeing you all there! Joan W. Miller, MD, FARVO Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Chief of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital ## HMS Ophthalmology News **Congratulations to Carolyn Kloek who was named Program Director of the HMS Ophthalmology Residency Training Program, effective January 1, 2014**. As you may know, Carolyn has served alongside John Loewenstein as Associate Program Director since 2008 and is well prepared to assume the day-to-day oversight and strategic management of the program. Our heartfelt thanks go to John who has done an absolutely stellar job as Program Director for 12 years and who will continue in his current roles as HMS Education Vice Chair and Associate Clinical Chief for Mass. Eye and Ear. This shift in leadership also will allow John to devote more time to the increasing demands of our Clinical Operations activities and to pursue other key educational initiatives. Please join me in congratulating Carolyn in her new role and in thanking John for bringing his own vision of educational excellence to the program. In another changing of the guards, **Dean Eliott was named Director of the Mass. Eye and Ear Vitreoretinal Fellowship Program** effective January 1, 2014. Thank you to **Shizuo Mukai** for his 23 years of dedicated service in this role. **Call for Information!** The HMS Ophthalmology Communications Office is gathering faculty profile information for several department initiatives, including a biography book for the upcoming department-wide faculty retreat on March 14 and 15. Requests for information were emailed to faculty last week ― **please respond with your comments by Wednesday, January 22nd to ensure that your information is accurate and up-to-date. Please contact Susan Cardoza at [susan\_cardoza@meei.harvard.edu](mailto:susan_cardoza@meei.harvard.edu) or Karen Bernstein at [karen\_bernstein@meei.harvard.edu](mailto:karen_bernstein@meei.harvard.edu) if you have questions.** **A New Resource for HMS Faculty** ― The Harvard Medical School Office of Communications and External Relations has launched a new community website called @HMS for faculty, staff, postdocs and students. For information about human resources issues, funding opportunities, videos, upcoming events, feature articles, resources around campus and more, please visit: **MGH’s Center for Faculty Development Office** hosts a variety of events and lectures that are open to Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens faculty. Please click on the links below for more information on these and other offerings. - **[January 23rd: Mentoring: Responsibilities of Mentors & Mentees](http://www2.massgeneral.org/facultydevelopment/cfd/within-mgh.html#Jan)** Responsible Conduct of Research Series - **[February 25th: "Meet and Greet" Networking Breakfast with Dr. Galit Alter ](http://www2.massgeneral.org/facultydevelopment/cfd/within-mgh.html#Feb)** Networking Series As we mentioned in our November *eyeNews™* blast, **we are now including a comprehensive list of HMS faculty (peer-reviewed) publications in each issue**. While we make every effort to include all scholarship from the department each month by searching PubMed, we cannot guarantee every publication will be listed. **If you have a specific publication that you want to be sure is included in *eyeNews™*, please [email our staff](mailto:eyenews@meei.harvard.edu)**. [Return to top](#top) ## HMS Faculty Updates - **Dean Eliott,** Director, Vitreoretinal Fellowship Program, Mass. Eye and Ear - **Matthew Gardiner**, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, HMS - **Carolyn Kloek**, Director, Department of Ophthalmology Residency Training Program, HMS and Chief of the Division of Ophthalmology in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. - **Lotfi Merabet**, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, HMS - **Lucia Sobrin**, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, HMS - **Demetrios** **Vavvas**, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, HMS **New Recruits:** **Xiaowu Gai** joined Mass. Eye and Ear full-time in January 2014 as the new Director of Bioinformatics at Mass Eye and Ear and Director of Bioinformatics and Co-Director of the Ocular Genomics Institute. Xiaowu received his MS in Genetics from the Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China, and a PhD in Genetics from Iowa State. Most recently, he served as Director of Biomedical Informatics at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. His wife, Rong Guo, will be joining the Mass. Eye and Ear research team as a biostatistician. [Return to top](#top) ## Honors, Awards & Grants **Jason Comander** was awarded a $250,000 Research to Prevent Blindness career development award over four years for his project, “Inherited Retinal Degenerations: From Molecular Diagnostics to Treatments.” **Pedram Hamrah** received $328,000 from GlaxoSmithKline LLC for his project, “To Study the Utility of *in vivo* Confocal Microscopy to Assess Cellular Response and Efficacy of Long-Term Topical Steroid Treatment in Patients With Dry Eye Disease.” Pedram also received $275,000 from Allergan Inc. for his project, “Ocular Surface Immune Response in Dry Eye Disease: Analysis of Conjunctival and Peripheral Corneal Immune Cell Alterations by *in vivo* Confocal Microscopy and Clinical Correlation.” **Carolyn Kloek** is being honored with a 2014 Pinnacle Award for “Achievement in the Professions” from the Women’s Network of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. The ceremony will be held on January 30, 2014 at the Boston Marriott Copley Plaza Hotel. The annual Pinnacle Awards pay tribute to business and professional women who have demonstrated excellence in entrepreneurship, management, lifetime achievement, and a commitment to enhance the quality of life in the region. Among the 2014 honorees are Harvard President Drew Faust (Lifetime Achievement), First Lady, Mrs. Angela Faletra Menino (2oth Anniversary Pinnacle Award, and Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (Achievement in Management, Government) **Lotfi Merabet** was a featured speaker at the December 6, 2013 Challenges Workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hosted by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation (ABF), the day-long event highlighted cutting-edge research that can produce innovative solutions to help visually impaired people increase their independence and social inclusion. World-renowned tenor and songwriter Andrea Bocelli, who lost his eyesight at the age of 12, established the ABF in 2011 and created the ABF Challenges Program to promote scientific and technological research. **Eric Pierce** received an award totaling $713,000 over three years from the Foundation Fighting Blindness for his project, “Finding Elusive RP Genes.” The American Glaucoma Society awarded **Brian Song** $10,000 for his project, “Comparison of Alternative Visual Function Tests for Detection of Early Manifest Glaucoma.” **Demetrios Vavvas** received the 2013 Macula Society Research Grant award for his project, “Role of RIP3 Kinase in Inflammation Photoreceptor Cell Loss.” He will receive $30,000 in funding and will present the results of his project at a future Macula Society meeting. **David Wu** was awarded a NIH K08 grant totaling $1.1 million over five years for his project, “Molecular Profiling of Rods to Identify New Therapies for Retinal Degenerations.” David is conducting his research under the mentorship of Connie Cepko. **The Vision Rehabilitation Service** at Mass Eye and Ear was awarded $25,000 from the Sara Elizabeth O’Brien Trust for a project that aims to reduce medication errors and falls of at-risk seniors by facilitating home visits from occupational therapists. [Return to top](#top) ## Press **Fewer Cases of Glaucoma Now Progressing to Blindness:** November 6, 2013 ([*Medscape Medical News*](http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/813932)) **Lucy Shen** weighed in on the results of a recent glaucoma article published online October 28 in *Ophthalmology*, which found that the probability of glaucoma leading to blindness in at least one eye fell almost 50% for patients in Olmsted County, Minnesota between 1981 and 2000 compared with patients diagnosed between 1965 and1980. **Apoptosis Not Only Culprit in Cell Death:** November 16, 2013 (*[Ophthalmology Times](http://ophthalmologytimes.modernmedicine.com/ophthalmologytimes/news/apoptosis-not-only-culprit-cell-death)*) Although apoptosis is the most well-known form of programmed cell death **Joan Miller** explained in this article that alternative pathways, such as autophagy and necrosis, also are involved in cell death. **Speaker: Continual Improvements Made in Keratoprosthesis:** November 16, 2013 (*[Ocular Surgery News](http://www.healio.com/ophthalmology/cornea-external-disease/news/online/%7B6ed6ec4e-0bab-4894-ae5d-abce5a2f988d%7D/speaker-continual-improvements-made-in-keratoprostheses)*) **Claes Dohlman** was quoted in a news brief that recapped his keynote lecture—an update on the Boston Keratoprosthesis—at Cornea Subspecialty Day preceding the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting. **Birth Control Pills May Raise Eye Risks:** November 21, 2013 (*[New York Times blog](http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/birth-control-pills-may-raise-eye-risks/?ref=health&_r=0)*) **Louis Pasquale** commented on new research, which suggests that women who take oral contraceptives for several years or longer may double their lifetime risk of developing glaucoma. **DMEK Techniques Enhanced for Corneal Transplant:** November 27, 2013 (*[Medscape Medical News](http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/815161?src=rss#1)*) **Kathryn Colby** was asked to comment on the surgical refinements of DMEK techniques used in corneal transplantations. She noted that "more and more corneal surgeons are adopting DMEK techniques. We are learning more about the biology of endothelial dysfunction, which, coupled with surgical advances, make it a very exciting time to be a corneal surgeon." **Can an App Improve Vision? Assessing a training program that claims to help reduce the need for reading glasses:** December 9, 2013 (*[Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304854804579234162915397686)*) **Peter Bex** weighed in on whether a 12-week iPhone app training program that uses a technique called perceptual learning can reduce the need for reading glasses. **Contact Lens Effectively Delivers Glaucoma Medication:** December 9, 2013 (*Huffington Post*) Research conducted by Joseph Ciolino and MIT colleagues on an innovative contact lens delivery system gains steam in the popular press. In addition to this article, his work was described in *[HealthDay News](http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/12/09/your-contact-lens-might-someday-dispense-eye-drugs)*, *[Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520599/Contact-lens-releases-drugs-eye-gives-new-hope-glaucoma-sufferers.html)* (UK), *[Post](http://post.jagran.com/new-contact-lens-releases-drugs-into-the-eye-treats-glaucoma-1386584448)* (India), *YAHOO! News* ([India](http://in.news.yahoo.com/drug-dispensing-contact-lens-could-replace-imprecise-eye-081011075.html), and [UK & Ireland](http://uk.news.yahoo.com/the-contact-lens-that-could-save-millions-from-blindness-120429795.html)), *[R&D Magazine](http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/12/innovative-contact-lens-delivers-glaucoma-medication-continuously)*, *[EurekAlert!](http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/meae-idc120613.php)*, *[Nanowerk News](http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=33600.php)*, *Product Design and Development*, *Science World Report*, *The Engineer* (UK), *Boston Globe*, *Scientific America*, *The Economist*, *CNN.com*, and other media outlets. He also was interviewed by WBUR. **Tiny Screens Can Be a Big Strain on Eyes:** December 16, 2013 (*[Boston Globe](http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/12/16/all-that-squinting-tiny-screens-causing-physical-problems-for-some-but-there-are-ways-lessen-harm/14Nmdk9Znjnppv3TMqqg9K/story.html)*) **Matthew Gardiner** commented on Computer Vision Syndrome, which includes symptoms such as sore eyes, blurry vision, headaches, and muscle strain. He reported that one in eight patients will demonstrate these symptoms and recommended taking screen breaks every 20 minutes, trying to blink more often, and increasing font size. **Gang Luo’s** new iPhone app, called SuperVision+, is one new option for magnifying images and providing extra light by using the phone’s camera. **Antibiotic May Treat Dry Eye Disorder:** December 29, 2013 (*[MedicalResearch.com](http://medicalresearch.com/tag/dry-eye/)*) **David Sullivan** and **Yang Liu** were interviewed about the results of their recent study, which indicated that azithromycin can stimulate the function of meibomian gland epithelial cells and may prove useful in treating meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), the leading cause of dry eye disease around the world. [Return to top](#top) ## Recent Publications (November - December, 2013) Awh CC, **Lane AM**, Hawken S, Zanke B, **Kim IK**. [CFH and ARMS2 genetic polymorphisms predict response to antioxidants and zinc in patients with age-related macular degeneration](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642013006799). *Ophthalmology* – 2013 November [](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642013006799) Bever GJ, **Jakobiec FA**, **Mendoza PR**, **Hatton MP**. [Congenital megacaruncle: a unique and innocent ocular adnexal anomaly](http://archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1748765). *JAMA Ophthalmology* – 2013 December Bressler SB, Almukhtar T, **Aiello LP**, Bressler NM, Ferris FL 3rd, Glassman AR, Greven CM; [Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network. Green or yellow laser treatment for diabetic macular edema: Exploratory assessment within the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network](http://journals.lww.com/retinajournal/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2013&issue=11000&article=00012&type=abstract). *Retina* – 2013 November/December **Cruzat A**, **Tauber A**, Shukla A, **Paschalis EI**, **Pineda R**, **Dohlman CH**. [Low-cost and readily available tissue carriers for the Boston Keratoprosthesis: A review of possibilities](http://www.hindawi.com/journals/joph/2013/686587/). *Journal of Ophthalmology* – 2013 **Gilmore MS**, **Lebreton F**, Van Tyne D. [Dual defensin strategy for targeting *Enterococcus faecalis*](http://www.pnas.org/content/110/50/19980.extract). *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* – 2013 December 10 **Gipson IK**. [Age-related changes and diseases of the ocular surface and cornea](http://www.iovs.org/content/54/14/ORSF48.long). *Investigative* *Ophthalmology & Visual Science* - 2013 December [](http://www.iovs.org/content/54/14/ORSF48.long) **Gupta M**, **Shah AS**, Vergilio JA, Chou J, **Elliott A**. [Orbital follicular hyperplasia in common variable immune deficiency syndrome](http://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com/sp-3.10.0b/ovidweb.cgi?QS2=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). *Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery* - 2013 November/December Hajrasouliha AR, **Sadrai Z**, Lee HK, **Chauhan SK**, **Dana R**. [Expression of the chemokine decoy receptor D6 mediates dendritic cell function and promotes corneal allograft rejection](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867163/). *Molecular Vision* - 2013 December 16 [](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867163/) **Hodges RR**, **Dartt DA**. [Tear film mucins: Front line defenders of the ocular surface; comparison with airway and gastrointestinal tract mucins](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014483513002376). *Experimental Eye Research* – 2013 December [](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014483513002376) **Hunter DG**. [Accuracy of vision screening](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109185311300284X). *Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus* – 2013 December **Jakobiec FA**, **Werdich XQ**, **Chodosh J**, **Freitag SK**. [An analysis of conjunctival and periocular venous malformations: Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical features with a comparison of racemose and cirsoid lesions](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039625713001392). *Survey of Ophthalmology* – 2013 December 17 [](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039625713001392) **Lebreton F**, **Valentino MD**, **Duncan LB**, Zeng Q, Manson McGuire A, Earl AM, **Gilmore MS**. [High-quality draft genome sequence of Vagococcus lutrae strain LBD1, isolated from the largemouth bass *Micropterus salmoides*](http://genomea.asm.org/content/1/6/e01087-13.long). *Genome Announcements* – 2013 November/December Levin MH, Pistilli M, Daniel E, Gangaputra SS, Nussenblatt RB, Rosenbaum JT, Suhler EB, Thorne JE, **Foster CS**, Jabs DA, Levy-Clarke GA, Kempen JH; [Systemic Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Diseases Cohort Study. Incidence of visual improvement in uveitis cases with visual impairment caused by macular edema](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642013008439). *Ophthalmology*. 2013 December 12 **Li D**, **Hodges RR**, **Jiao J,** **Carozza RB**, **Shatos MA**, Chiang N, Serhan CN**, Dartt DA**.[ Resolvin D1 and aspirin-triggered resolvin D1 regulate histamine-stimulated conjunctival goblet cell secretion](http://www.nature.com/mi/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mi20137a.html). *Mucosal Immunology* - 2013 November Lim P, Ridges R, **Jacobs DS, Rosenthal P**. [Treatment of persistent corneal epithelial defect with overnight wear of a prosthetic device for the ocular surface](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002939413003942). *American Journal of Ophthalmology* – 2013 December **Liu Y**, **Kam WR**, **Ding J**, **Sullivan DA**. [Effect of azithromycin on lipid accumulation in immortalized human meibomian gland epithelial cells](http://archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1792853). *JAMA Ophthalmology* 2013 – December 19 Mackay DS, Borman AD, Sui R, van den Born LI, **Berson EL**, Ocaka LA, Davidson AE, Heckenlively JR, Branham K, Ren H, Lopez I, Maria M, Azam M, Henkes A, Blokland E; LCA5 Study Group, Andreasson S, de Baere E, Bennett J, Chader GJ, Berger W, Golovleva I, Greenberg J, den Hollander AI, Klaver CC, Klevering BJ, Lorenz B, Preising MN, Ramsear R, Roberts L, Roepman R, Rohrschneider K, Wissinger B, Qamar R, Webster AR, Cremers FP, Moore AT, Koenekoop RK. [Screening of a large cohort of leber congenital amaurosis and retinitis pigmentosa patients identifies novel LCA5 mutations and new genotype-phenotype correlations](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/humu.22398/abstract;jsessionid=090650D074F98A7773EDE4FA0FF8BE70.f01t04). *Human Mutation* – 2013 November **Marko CK**, **Tisdale AS**, **Spurr-Michaud S**, Evans C, **Gipson I**. [The ocular surface phenotype of Muc5ac and Muc5b null mice](http://www.iovs.org/content/early/2013/12/09/iovs.13-13194.long). *Investigative* *Ophthalmology & Visual Science* - 2013 December 10 Melo MB, Nguyen QP, **Cordeiro C**, Hassan MA, Yang N, McKell R, Rosowski EE, Julien L, Butty V, Dardé ML, Ajzenberg D, Fitzgerald K, **Young LH**, Saeij JP. [Transcriptional analysis of murine macrophages infected with different toxoplasma strains identifies novel regulation of host signaling pathways](http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003779). *PLOS Pathogens* – 2013 December 19 [](http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003779)**Mendoza PR**, **Jakobiec FA**, Krane JF. [Immunohistochemical features of lacrimal gland epithelial tumors](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002939413004492). *American Journal of Ophthalmology* – 2013 December [](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002939413004492) **Murakami Y**, **Notomi S**, Hisatomi T, Nakazawa T, Ishibashi T, **Miller JW**, **Vavvas DG**.[ Photoreceptor cell death and rescue in retinal detachment and degenerations](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350946213000530). *Progress in Retinal and Eye Research –* 2013 November Ogawa Y, Kim SK, **Dana R**, Clayton J, Jain S, Rosenblatt MI, Perez VL, **Shikari H**, Riemens A, Tsubota K. [International chronic ocular graft-vs-host-disease (GVHD) consensus group: Proposed diagnostic criteria for chronic GVHD (Part I)](http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/131205/srep03419/full/srep03419.html). *Scientific Reports* – 2013 December 5 [](http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/131205/srep03419/full/srep03419.html) Shaaban S, Ramos-Platt L, Gilles FH, Chan WM, Andrews C, De Girolami U, Demer J, **Engle EC**. RYR1 [Mutations as a cause of ophthalmoplegia, facial weakness, and malignant hyperthermia](http://archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1745507). *JAMA Ophthalmology* – 2013 December [](http://archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1745507) **Silva PS**, **Cavallerano JD**, **Sun JK**, **Soliman AZ**, **Aiello LM**, **Aiello LP**. [Peripheral lesions identified by mydriatic ultrawide field imaging: Distribution and potential impact on diabetic retinopathy severity](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642013004132). *Ophthalmology* – 2013 December [](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642013004132) **Simon SS**, **Chee YE**, **Haddadin RI**, **Veldman PB**, **Borboli-Gerogiannis S**, **Brauner SC**, **Chang KK**, **Chen SH, Gardiner MF**, **Greenstein SH**, **Kloek CE**, **Chen TC**.[ Achieving target refraction after cataract surgery](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642013008427). *Ophthalmology* – 2013 November 26 **Sobrin L**, Seddon JM. [Nature and nurture- genes and environment- predict onset and progression of macular degeneration](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350946213000839). *Progress in Retinal and Eye Research* – 2013 December 26 Sukhdeo K, Koch CE, Miller TE, Zhou H, Rivera M, Yan K, **Cepko CL**, Lathia JD, Rich JN. [The Lgr5 transgene is expressed specifically in glycinergic amacrine cells in the mouse retina](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014483513003229). *Experimental Eye Research* – 2013 November 15 [](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014483513003229) Uy HS, **Kenyon KR**. [Surgical outcomes after application of a liquid adhesive ocular bandage to clear corneal incisions during cataract surgery](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088633501300878X). *Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery* – 2013 November Villani E, Baudouin C, Efron N, **Hamrah P**, Kojima T, Patel SV, Pflugfelder SC, Zhivov A, Dogru M. [*In vivo* confocal microscopy of the ocular surface: From bench to bedside](http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/02713683.2013.842592). *Current Eye Research* – 2013 November 11 **Walshe TE**, **dela Paz NG**, **D'Amore PA**.[ The role of shear-induced transforming growth factor-β signaling in the endothelium](http://atvb.ahajournals.org/content/33/11/2608.long). *Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology* – 2013 November **Yoon MK**, **Jakobiec FA**, **Mendoza PR**. [Canaliculops: Clinicopathologic features and treatment with marsupialization](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002939413003966). *American Journal of Ophthalmology* – 2013 November [](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002939413003966) **Yu H**, **Vu TH**, **Cho KS**, **Guo C**, **Chen DF**. [Mobilizing endogenous stem cells for retinal repair](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931524413004283). *Translational Research* – 2013 November 22 [](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931524413004283) Zhan X, Larson DE, Wang C, Koboldt DC, Sergeev YV, Fulton RS, Fulton LL, Fronick CC, Branham KE, Bragg-Gresham J, Jun G, Hu Y, Kang HM, Liu D, Othman M, Brooks M, Ratnapriya R, Boleda A, Grassmann F, von Strachwitz C, Olson LM, Buitendijk GH, Hofman A, van Duijn CM, Cipriani V, Moore AT, Shahid H, Jiang Y, Conley YP, Morgan DJ, **Kim IK**, Johnson MP, Cantsilieris S, Richardson AJ, Guymer RH, Luo H, Ouyang H, Licht C, Pluthero FG, Zhang MM, Zhang K, Baird PN, Blangero J, Klein ML, Farrer LA, DeAngelis MM, Weeks DE, Gorin MB, Yates JR, Klaver CC, Pericak-Vance MA, Haines JL, Weber BH, Wilson RK, Heckenlively JR, Chew EY, Stambolian D, Mardis ER, Swaroop A, Abecasis GR. [Identification of a rare coding variant in complement 3 associated with age-related macular degeneration](http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v45/n11/full/ng.2758.html). *Nature Genetics **–*** 2013 November **Zhang N**, **Favazza TL**, **Baglieri AM**, **Benador IY**, **Noonan ER**, **Fulton AB**, **Hansen RM**, Iuvone PM, **Akula JD**. [The rat with oxygen-induced retinopathy is myopic with low retinal dopamine](http://www.iovs.org/content/54/13/8275.long). *Investigative* *Ophthalmology & Visual Science* – 2013 December [](http://www.iovs.org/content/54/13/8275.long) [Return to top](#top) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)