Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, the Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, received the 2023 Heed-Gutman Award from the Society of Heed Fellows... Read more about Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, Receives Heed-Gutman Award

In recognition of her career-long commitment to mentoring, Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, the Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, received the 2022 Harvard Ophthalmology Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award.... Read more about Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, Receives Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award

Janey Wiggs, MD, PhD, the Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair of Clinical Research at Harvard Medical School, was named a Glaucoma Visionary by Glaucoma Today.... Read more about Janey Wiggs, MD, PhD, Named Glaucoma Visionary

Faculty member Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, has been selected by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) to receive the 2022 Mildred Weisenfeld Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology in recognition of her distinguished scholarly contributions to the clinical practice of ophthalmology. This award was established as a tribute to Ms. Weisenfeld's outstanding contributions to the field, which include the founding of Fight for Sight in 1946.... Read more about Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD Selected to Receive 2022 Weisenfeld Award

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Director of the Ocular Genomics Institute at Harvard Medical School, and the Associate Chief for Clinical Research in Ophthalmology and Interim Glaucoma Service Director at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

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Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Chief of Ophthalmology Clinical Research and Associate Director of the Howe Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, is the 2018 recipient of the Dr. David L. Epstein Award, an honor given by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Dr. Wiggs will receive the...

NIH and India fund collaborative grant for glaucoma research

Boston, Mass. —  Researchers from the U.S. and India have begun a new collaborative project to identify genetic risk factors and traits related to glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the researchers’ goal is to help develop effective screening, prevention, and treatment strategies for glaucoma. Grants from the two agencies...

Jason Comander, MD, PhD, received a Foundation Fighting Blindness Enhanced Career Development Award in the amount of $510,000 over three years.

Meredith Gregory-Ksander, PhD, received a grant from ONL Therapeutics in the amount of $59,739 over one year to determine whether treatment with a Fas inhibitor can prevent neuroinflammation and the death of RCGs in a mouse model of glaucoma.

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Janey Wiggs, MD, PhD, is the lead author on the article, “Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2...

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...

The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) is hosting its 2015 annual meeting at the Sands Expo/Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada from November 14-17, 2015, with subspecialty days on November 13-14, 2015. 

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More than 300 Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology faculty, alumni, and trainees gathered for a three-day festival of events that included the Annual Meeting and Alumni Reunion, tours of Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute, a celebratory dinner, and visits to the Harvard Art Museum and Harvard Museum of Natural History from May 29 to 31. Annual...

Researchers Report that Panel-based Genetic Diagnostic Testing for Inherited Eye Diseases is Highly Accurate and More Sensitive than Exome Sequencing
Findings published online in Genetics in Medicine

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BOSTON, MASS. (Nov. 20, 2014) --Investigators at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology and colleagues reported the development and characterization of a...