2025 Military Vision Symposium

Last week, Mass Eye and Ear hosted its 9th Military Vision Symposium. The two-day event brought together clinicians, scientists, and military leaders with the goal of propelling innovative research to improve treatment and prevention strategies for combat-related eye injuries.
 
More than 125 attendees joined us for panel discussions, lectures, and lightning talks on a range of topics including inflammation in post-traumatic brain injury, the Defense and Veterans Eye Injury and Vision Registry, and ocular surface treatment with autologous stem cells.

Congratulations to our trainee lighting talk winners:

First Prize
Hennaav Kaur Dhillon, MBBS, Research Associate, Mass Eye and Ear
Advancing Supersaturated Oxygen Emulsion as a Topical Treatment for Ocular Alkali Burn in Rabbits

Second Prize
Ming Yang, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
Enhancing Optic Nerve Regeneration and Neuroprotection in Mouse Glaucoma Models Through Anti-Lipid Peroxidation Strategies

Third Prize
Jeysson Sanchez Suarez, PhD, Research Fellow, Mass Eye and Ear
Targeting the Rho-kinase Pathway for the Treatment of Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy: Netarsudil as a Therapeutic Candidate

Thank you to our planning committee members Dong Feng Chen, PhD, Joseph Ciolino, MD, and Jia Yin, MD, PhD, MPH, for putting together such a wonderful program, and our event team members, Linda Benson, Erica Eaton, Danielle Moschella, and Christina Stetson, for making this event possible.