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2023 ARVO Achievement Award recipients
February 28, 2023Proctor Medal: Eric A. Pierce, MD, PhD, FARVO (BI) Eric Pierce is the Chatlos Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and the founding director of the Ocular Genomics Institute at Mass Eye and Ear. Pierce’s research program is focused on improving our understanding of the genetic causality of inherited retinal degenerations... Read More
Dr. Marcela Garita-Hernandez from Harvard Medical School awarded $70,000 Knights Templar Eye Foundation Grant for Leber Congenital Amaurosis Research
February 28, 2023Dr. Marcela Garita-Hernandez from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts was awarded a $70,000 grant entitled: Modeling NMNAT1-Associated Early Onset Retinal Degeneration Using hiPSC-Derived Retinal Organoids Blindness can be caused by mutations affecting the different cells of the retina. One of these... Read More
$300,000 Individual investigator research award
December 11, 2022During the 2022 fiscal year, the Foundation added 23 new research projects to its portfolio, an investment totaling more than $15 million. One of the Individual Investigator Research Awardees we'd like to highlight is Kinga Bujakowska, PhD, of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bujakowska's research is on “Exon skipping as... Read More
Racing the Clock and Raising Hope for Usher Syndrome Patients
November 15, 2022Researchers Zheng-Yi Chen, DPhil, and Qin Liu, MD, PhD, are combining forces to combat a rare disease that leads to blindness and deafness. Watch this video of Read More