Rosario Fernandez-Godino, PhD, MSc, has been selected to receive the BrightFocus Foundation Award. The award, presented by the foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research Program to investigators who have generated promising preliminary data on potential treatments for macular degeneration, will provide $160,000 of support over two years.... Read more about Dr. Fernandez-Godino Receives BrightFocus Foundation Award

Rachel M. Huckfeldt, MD, PhD, has been selected to receive a Career Development Award from Foundation Fighting Blindness. The award, which is given to two junior clinical investigators who are studying retinal degenerative diseases, will provide $375,000 of support over five years.... Read more about Dr. Huckfeldt Receives Foundation Fighting Blindness Award

Celebrated award honors distinguished achievements in ophthalmology

Joan W. Miller, MD, the David Glendenning Cogan Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been named the 2018 recipient of the celebrated Lucien Howe Medal from the American Ophthalmological Society (AOS) for her distinguished service to the fields of retina and ophthalmology. ... Read more about Joan W. Miller, MD, Receives Howe Medal from American Ophthalmological Society

Pictured above: Retinal microglia (green) and the retinal vasculature (magenta). Photo credit: Dong-Ho Park, M.D., Connor Lab.

A research team at Massachusetts Eye and Ear has shown that microglia, the primary immune cells of the brain and retina, play a protective role in response to retinal detachment.... Read more about Microglia protect sensory cells needed for vision after retinal detachment

Boston, Mass. — Patricia A. D’Amore, Ph.D., MBA, the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Research, and Director of the Schepens...

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In a significant advance against drug-resistant superbugs, investigators supported by the Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance have identified a new class of synthetic antibiotics that have been shown to be effective against Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus. The newly discovered antibiotics could one day help treat deadly infections caused by these superbugs.

The research group, which included Michael Gilmore, PhD, Sir William Osler Professor of...

Qin Liu, MD, PhD, received a Sponsored Research Agreement award from Casebia Therapeutics in the amount of $721,702 over two years from her project, "Gene editing for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa."

Hajirah Saeed, MD, received a K23 grant from the National Institutes of Health in the estimated amount of $1,...

Boston, Mass. — Massachusetts Eye and Ear made medical history on Tuesday by performing the first post-FDA approval gene therapy for patients with a form of inherited blindness. The occasion marks the beginning of a new era in medicine, as it is the first time any FDA-approved gene therapy has been given to a patient for any inherited disease.

The treatment, commercially identified as Luxturna, was developed by Spark Therapeutics and ...

Dean Cestari, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and...

New nonprofit organization will bring treatments to clinical trial for people at risk for blindness due to ultra-rare inherited retinal diseases.

Boston, Mass. — Scientists and advocates today announced the formation of ...

Eli Peli, MSc, OD, is the recipient of the 2018 Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School. He will receive the award during a ceremony at Harvard Medical School on April 30, 2018.

The Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award was established to recognize faculty from Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HMS/HSDM) who have made significant achievements in moving the Schools toward being a diverse and...

As part of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) and National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR) Advocacy Day, Magali Saint-Geniez, PhD, and Russell Woods, PhD, two vision researchers from Schepens Eye Research Institute at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Ophthalmology,...

A paper written by Harvard Ophthalmology faculty Ivana K. Kim, MD; Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD; John B. Miller, MD; ...

Suzanne K. Freitag, MD, has been named Editor-in-Chief of Orbit, the International Journal on Orbital Disorders, Oculoplastic and Lacrimal Surgery, as of January 1, 2018.

Dr. Freitag joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 2011, and serves as the Director of the Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Service at Mass. Eye and Ear.   She is a founder and Co-Director of the Mass Eye and Ear Center for Thyroid Eye Disease...