Age-related Macular Degeneration

A large-scale, collaborative, systems biology approach is needed to expedite the discovery of treatments for dry age-related macular degeneration, according to a report by a working group of scientists appointed by the National Advisory Eye Council (NAEC)...

Saghar Bagheri, MD, Clinical Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear under the mentorship of Dr. Demetrios Vavvas, has been invited to participate in the Members-in-Training Outstanding Poster Award Competition at the ARVO Annual Meeting. She received one of...

Attendance for the 3rd Biennial International Symposium on Ocular Regeneration and the 5th Biennial International Symposium on AMD continues to climb each year, reflecting the high caliber of these meetings and the value they bring to their respective...

A paper written by Harvard Ophthalmology faculty Ivana K. Kim, MD; Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD; John B. Miller, MD; Joan W. Miller, MD; Teresa C. Chen, MD; and Deeba Husain, MD ; research fellow Inês Laíns, MD; and former research fellow Edem Tsikata...

A huge thank you to the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2018! The NEI has strongly supported Ophthalmology research programs at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Ophthalmology over...

As part of the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) Emerging Vision Scientists Program, Neena Haider, PhD , and Hajirah Saeed, MD , met with Congress members and their legislators on September 13-14, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to...

Findings may lead to earlier diagnoses and better prognostic information for patients — and, potentially, new pharmaceutical targets for AMD treatment. Boston, Mass. — Patients with any stage of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) carry signs of the...

Findings may have significant therapeutic implications for AMD, the most common cause of elderly blindness in the developed world Boston, Mass. — A compound of specific bioactive products from a major family of enzymes reduced the severity of age-related...

At the fourth Biennial International Symposium on AMD, held October 21-22, 2016 in Boston, more than 200 clinicians, researchers, trainees, and industry representatives discussed current AMD topics and the challenges that lay ahead. One of the central...