Petr Baranov, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, and Michael Young, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, are recipients of the Gilbert Family Foundation 2022 Vision Restoration Initiative awards.... Read more about Petr Baranov, MD, PhD, and Michael Young, PhD, Receive Vision Restoration Initiative Awards

As part of the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) Emerging Vision Scientists Program, Petr Baranov, MD, PhD, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, met with Congress members and their legislators on September 14, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to advocate for vision research.  

The major topic for this year’s event was potential treatments for age-...

Faculty Awards

Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD, and co-PI, Leo Kim, MD, PhD, received a Department of Defense grant in the amount of $1,499,592 over three years, for their project, "Testing the Preclinical Efficacy of Therapies for Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy." They are collaborating on this project with ...

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...