Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD

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 at its annual luncheon at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual...

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. An...

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. An internationally renowned medical geneticist, glaucoma specialist...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Janey Wiggs, MD, PhD, is the lead author on the article, “ Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2, ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma” published online in Nature Genetics on January 11, 2016. Dr. Wiggs and...