Elizabeth Rossin https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002939424004082?dgcid=author

Rachel Huckfeldt MD, PhD is among the 2024 honorees for the Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award. This award is presented to women faculty clinicians, educators, researchers, and postdoctoral fellows who have demonstrated exceptional promise as leaders in their... Read More

Advances in gene sequencing technologies have accelerated the identification of genetic variants, but better tools are needed to understand which are causal of disease. This would be particularly useful in fields where gene therapy is a potential therapeutic modality for a disease-causing variant such as inherited retinal disease (IRD). Read More

Boston, Mass. — Results from a groundbreaking clinical trial of CRISPR gene editing in 14 individuals with a form of inherited blindness show that the treatment is safe and led to measurable improvements in 11 of the participants treated. The phase 1/2 trial called BRILLIANCE, was led by principal investigator  Read More

Ocular Genomics Institute members Hanmeng Zhang, Egle Galdikatie-Braziene, and Kannan Manian were awarded support for their work. Hanmeng Zhang, PhD: Investigating the role of Oxidative DNA... Read More

Ryoji Amamoto, PhD, an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Ophthalmology, has been selectedto receive a Child Health Research Grant Award fromthe Charles H. Hood Foundation.  These highly competitive awards provide $200,000 over two years to support scientific research and advance the careers of promising scientists at premier New... Read More

Dr. Inas Aboobakar of the Wiggs lab received a K23 clinician-scientist grant from the National Eye Institute. With this grant, Dr. Aboobakar will investigate the clinical impact and underlying disease mechanisms for glaucoma-associated genes that function in the mitochondria, the energy-producing parts of cells. This work is designed to help pave... Read More

Ayellet Segrè, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, received the Research to Prevent Blindness/The Glaucoma Foundation 2023 Career Advancement Award. Dr. Segrè will use this award to identify genetic regulatory effects at the single cell level in the aqueous humor outflow pathways, retina,... Read More

Ayellet Segrè, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, and Genetic Biostatistician at the Ocular Genomics Institute at Mass. Eye and Ear (MEE), and her lab members, in collaboration with Janey Wiggs, MD, Ph.D., Ocular Genomics Institute Associate Director, and Professor of Ophthalmology at HMS, Josh Sanes,... Read More

 The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Foundation congratulates Elizabeth Rossin, MD, PhD — 2024 recipient of the Bert M. Glaser, MD Award for Innovative Research in Retina. The award recognizes an early-career investigator who has discovered a novel drug, technique, or the understanding of a mechanism of disease... Read More