How to safely view an eclipse! The pinhole projector is more fun than the glasses! abcnews.go.com/US/video/safel…

Link to learn more and register: carroll.org/events/stargar…

Faculty member Jason Comander MD PhD will be discussing the latest Stargardt’s research and the biological basis of the disease at the virtual Stargardt’s Summit next Wednesday, February 29.

Are you ready for our final Eye on the Cure episode of 2023? In this week's episode, host Ben Shaberman chats with Jason Comander, Md, PhD.

Learn more about streaming at: FightingBlindness.org/news/eyecurepo…

VIDEO: Gene therapy for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa shows positive safety, efficacy data.
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Usher syndrome is a hereditary condition responsible for nearly half of all deaf-blindness cases. Today, on #USHDAY , Mass Eye and Ear researchers Zheng-Yi Chen, DPhil, and Qin Liu, MD, PhD lend their expertise on the disease: fal.cn/3rYJ3

Today I saw a patient that is seeing the other Dr. Comander- that would be my amazing husband, retina specialist & physician scientist Jason Comander MD PhD, in just a few weeks…… I think this is the first time we have shared a patient!

Who are some of the Harvard University professors condemning the school newspaper's endorsement of the #BDS movement?
• Amy Comander MD, DipABLM
• Alan Dershowitz
• Jesse Fried
• Robert Mnookin
• Elisa New | Poetry In America
• Steven Pinker
• And more ...

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Great chatting with this crew at #ARVO2022 !

(l to r) Jason McAnany, RPB Dolly Green Special Scholar Awardee, Illinois; Jason Comander, RPB Career Development Awardee, Harvard Medical School; Robert Hyde Illinois; and RPB President Brian Hofland

And it was a surprise where we found the breaks! (Eccentric macular holes). Thanks for the mention

When I began my career in 2001: Leber congenital amaurosis was blinding. No treatments.

Now: promising phase 1b/2 trial of intravitreal antisense oligonucleotide for LCA type 10.

UIowa Eye UZ Gent Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute Penn Medicine ProQR Therapeutics

Nature Medicine paper: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Join us in congratulating PGY4 Priya Gupta, MD on receiving a @fightblindness Clinical Research Fellowship Award to fund her research during the upcoming academic year at Mass Eye and Ear where she will complete an Inherited Retinal Dystrophy fellowship - bit.ly/3q4tI9c

Congratulations to RPB grantees Dr. Mark Pennesi of OHSU News OHSU Casey Eye and Dr. Eric Pierce of Harvard Medical School Mass Eye and Ear Harvard Ophthalmology on this wonderful NPR account of some of their recent research that is restoring vision to people with retinal diseases. n.pr/3B7aeFa

Fantastic #Postdoc opportunity in the Jason Comander MD PhD lab studying Inherited Retinal Degeneration at Mass Eye and Ear Harvard Medical School Harvard Ophthalmology

PostDoc_Pal Postdoc Predoc Opportunities The Minion Postdoc Future PI Slack #sciencejobs #Ophthalmology #academictwitter #phdlife
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thanks for this PSA Dr. Glaucomflecken

as a trauma surgeon i've seen many patients who've blown their faces off after checking to see why fireworks haven't gone off. btw in addition to catastrophic facial damage, they can cause brain injury & death as well.

Do you like #CRISPR , #Hamilton , #GenomeEditing , and/or music by Lin-Manuel Miranda? If no to all, be sure you avoid watching this amazing video below.

H/t Kevin Zhao

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