Young New Zealander Visits the OGI
May 1, 2017Louis Corbett, front left, learns the latest in eye research from Dr. Luk Vandenberghe. Louis Corbett, 12, is losing his vision due to Retinitis Pigmentosa, an inherited retinal degeneration that also affects his older brother. His parents decided to take him on a “bucket-list” tour so he could see the world before his vision is permanently... Read More
OGI Partners with Agilent
May 1, 2017MEEI Named by Agilent Technologies as Certified Service Provider for Next-Generation Sequencing and aCGH Solutions SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 24, 2013 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School,... Read More
OGI Fellow Wins Poster Award At ARVO
May 1, 2017OGI Fellow Wins MIT Poster Award Dr. Chari Fernadez Godino was awarded the 2014 MIT Outstanding Poster Award at this year's annual ARVO Meeting. Her winning poster was entitled "A Primary RPE cell culture model to study early mechanism of macular degeneration". Chari is senior fellow in the Pierce lab and her research is focused on... Read More
New Findings Published in BMC Genomics
May 1, 2017OGI Researcher Michael Farkas, Eric Pierce and colleagues publish groundbreaking findings in BMC Genomics; most thorough description of gene expression in the human retina to date. BOSTON (July 18, 2013) – Investigators at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School have published the most thorough description of gene expression... Read More
Harvard Medical School article featuring OGI researchers technique
May 1, 2017The Gene Therapy Renaissance: How one experimental technique overcame a troubled legacy and today is helping the blind to see R. ALAN LEO − April 18, 2013 In 1999, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania injected 19 people with a virus... Read More
GEDI Panel Released at MEEI
May 1, 2017The Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology today announced the availability of a comprehensive genetic diagnostic test for inherited retinal disease (IRD), early-onset glaucoma and optic atrophy. The Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology today announced the... Read More
GED-i Findings Published
May 1, 2017Mass. Eye and Ear Researchers Report that Panel-based Genetic Diagnostic Testing for Inherited Eye Diseases is Highly Accurate and More Sensitive than Exome Sequencing Findings published online in Genetics in Medicine BOSTON (November 20, 2014) Investigators at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School Department of... Read More
Findings Published in Human Molecular Genetics
May 1, 2017Mass. Eye and Ear Researchers Report a Critical Role for the Complement System in Early Macular Degeneration Findings published in Human Molecular Genetics BOSTON, Mass., August 14, 2013 − In a study published today in the journal of Human Molecular Genetics, Drs. Donita Garland, Rosario Fernandez-Godino, and Eric Pierce of the Ocular... Read More
Dr. Wiggs, Team ID Genes that Contribute to Most Common Form of Glaucoma
May 1, 2017NIH-funded genetics analysis of glaucoma is largest to dateDr. Wiggs, Team ID Genes that Contribute to Most Common Form of Glaucoma Just in time for Glaucoma Awareness Month, a research team led by Janey Wiggs, M.D., Ph.D., of Mass. Eye and Ear has identified three genes that contribute to the most common type of glaucoma, primary open-angle... Read More
Dr. Wiggs Inducted into AOI
May 1, 2017Mass. Eye and Ear's Department of Ophthalmology was well-represented by Reza Dana, M.D., M.Sc., M.P.H., FARVO, and Janey Wiggs, M.D., Ph.D., FARVO, at the February 2016 Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (AOI) annual meeting in Mexico. As one of eight members elected in 2015, Dr. Wiggs was inducted into AOI after delivering her inaugural... Read More