The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School in Boston has been granted a $250,000 Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award, according to a news release.
The funds will support the work of Mass. Eye and Ear ophthalmologist Joseph Ciolino, MD. He has been working with collaborators at Children's Hospital Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on developing a drug-eluting contact lens.
Dr. Ciolino obtained his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine, according to his bio. He completed an internal medicine internship at Brown University and his ophthalmology residency at Albany Medical College. He completed a fellowship in the cornea, refractive surgery and external disease at Mass. Eye and Ear.
Following his fellowship, Dr. Ciolino joined Harvard Medical School's faculty at Mass. Eye and Ear. His clinical focus is in corneal transplants, keratoprosthesis and diseases of the anterior segment of the eye, and his research interests include keratoprosthesis and ocular drug delivery.
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