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The Harvard angiogenesis story

Joan W Miller1

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA, USA.

Survey of Ophthalmology
|October 22, 2013
PubMed

I shall discuss the work of researchers at Harvard Medical School who came together in the early 1990s. Scattered across various Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research centers, these individuals were unified by their interest in ocular neovascularization. Together and separately, they investigated models of ocular neovascularization, exploring tumor angiogenesis in eye development and disease.

Keywords:
Factor XHarvardMacula SocietyPaul Henkind Memorial Lectureage-related macular degeneration (AMD)angiogenesischoroidal neovascularization (CNV)retinopathyvascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)

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