The AAVCOVID vaccine program, a novel gene-based vaccine strategy led by Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass Eye and Ear, that utilizes an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector, was granted an award of $2.1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.... Read more about Preclinical Data on Single-Dose, Room Temperature-Stable COVID-19 Vaccine Supported by New Funding

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.... Read more about Scientists Reverse Age-Related Vision Loss, Eye Damage from Glaucoma in Mice

Yohei Tomita, MD, PhD, a research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, is a recipient of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society’s Young Investigator Award. This award will support Dr. Tomita's research project “Petinal pathological neovascularization by Increasing FGF21 level in an aurine oxygen-induced retinopathy model,” which is part of his work with Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. 

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.”... Read more about Nakul Singh, MD, MS, Recognized with Gragoudas-Folkman Prize