Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear released a new vision assistive app that acts as a “smart magnifying glass” to help people with low vision search for keywords in the physical world. Developed in the laboratory of Gang Luo, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, “SuperVision Search” uses optical...
Boston, Mass. — Two vision researchers from the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology have received awards from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), the world’s leading voluntary organization supporting eye research. Gang Luo, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has received the 2017 Innovations in Technology Low Vision...
Petr Baranov, MD, received the Alice Adler Award of $30,000 over one year from Harvard Medical School for his project, "High-throughput screening assay to identify photoreceptor pre-survival molecules." Together with Patricia D'Amore, PhD, MBA, he also received $60,000 over one year from Mass. Lions Eye Research Fund for their collaborative...
