OGI director Eric Pierce awarded 2026 Llura Liggett Gund Award
The Foundation Fighting Blindess awarded Eric A. Pierce, MD, PhD the 2026 Llura Liggett Gund Award. The Foundation’s highest honor, the award is presented annually to an individual whose work has... Read More
Eric Pierce, MD, PhD receives the Foundation Fighting Blindness 2026 Llura Liggett Gund Award
Eric Pierce, MD, PhD, OGI Director and William F. Chatlos Professor of Ophthalmology at HMS, received the Foundation Fighting Blindness’ highest honor, the Llura Liggett Gund Award, at the 2026 FFB Retinal... Read More
OGI Director Eric A. Pierce, MD, PhD, received the David F. Weeks Award
OGI Director Eric A. Pierce, MD, PhD, received the David F. Weeks Award from Research to Prevent Blindness for his pioneering work in inherited retinal disease research and the advancement of genetic therapies... Read More
New publication from Hanmeng Zhang and Pierce lab colleagues.
We identified oxidative DNA damage as a critical pathogenic mechanism in the Nmnat1-V9M model of inherited retinal disease. Therapeutic targeting of this damage preserves photoreceptors, and may extend to other genetically distinct retinal degenerations with similar mechanism. Read More
OGI members present at The Annual Clinical Genetic Meeting of The American College of Medical Genetics.
Eric Pierce gave the keynote address – The Evolution of Gene Therapy: Milestones, Challenges, and Future Directions and Read More
Inas Aboobakar Recognized with The David L. Epstein Clinician-Scientist Research Awardat the American glaucoma Society Annual Meeting in February 2026.
This award from the Chandler Grant Glaucoma Society honors David L. Epstein, MD—one of the most influential leaders in glaucoma and will provide support for ongoing research examining how glaucoma polygenic risk scores interact with social vulnerability indices to identify individuals at greatest disease risk. They identified a large... Read More
A new review from the OGI IPS research lab discusses prime editing of human pluripotent stem cells.
Marcela Garita Hernandez and colleagues review progress and report on optimization strategies. Read More
Inas Aboobakar, MD and colleagues identify a large structural variant associated with primary open-angle glaucoma risk
The authors leveraged whole genome sequencing data from the hashtag#AllofUsResearchProgram to study genomic variation previously missed with conventional genotyping approaches.
Eric Pierce Discusses IRD Research in in Havard Gazette
Eric Pierce (Mass Eye and Ear) was featured in the Harvard Gazette discussing from the OGI. The research authored with OGI members Read More