Marcela Garita Hernandez, PharmD, PhD chosen for Innovation Leadership program
May 26, 2025Marcela Garita Hernandez has been selected to participate in the 2025 Commercialization and Innovation Leadership program .Harvard Business School faculty... Read More
Francesca Kim wins ARVO outstanding poster award
May 14, 2025The highly competitive ARVO members in training (MIT) outstanding poster awards are presented to one of five top scored abstracts from each scientific session at the ARVO annual meeting. The award for the outstanding poster in the Genetics Cross-Sectional Group went to Francesca Kim for her project titled’ Expression of genes in novel... Read More
Friedenwald Award Lecture presented by OGI member Connie Cepko at ARVO 2025 annual meeting
May 14, 2025The 2025 Friedenwald award was presented to Connie Cepko, PhD, Bullard Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. Her lecture “ The retina: A Mosaic of radial founder cell clones “, focusses on the mechanisms used for cell fate choices among the many progeny of multipotent progenitor cells. This award honors... Read More
Findings highlight the significance of Vascular Endothelial Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase in diverse ocular and systemic veno-vascular diseases.
May 14, 2025A gene-wide association study led by Elizabeth Rossin MD,PhD identified a missense mutation in PTRBP related to Central Serous Chorioretinopathy, Varicose... Read More