#  2025 Military Vision Symposium 

 





March 06, 2025

 

 

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 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](/dongfengchen), [Joseph Ciolino, MD](/josephciolino), and [Jia Yin, MD, PhD, MPH](/jiayin), 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.



 

 

 



 

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