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Karolina Kaminska receives Early Career Award at the ESHG 2024
We are thrilled to announce Karolina Kaminska has been honored with the Early Career Award for outstanding research by young scientists at the ESHG 2024 conference in Berlin. This prestigious award was presented in recognition of her spoken contribution entitled “Mutations in COQ8B are a novel cause of recessive non-syndromic…
Swiss National MD-PhD grants to two IOB scientists
Jay Zoellin’s research project aims to address a critical gap in current medical care: Researchers at IOB recently discovered that a previously overlooked mutation is potentially the most common genetic defect in inherited retinal diseases. However, despite the high prevalence of this condition, both disease models and therapeutic options for…
Two IOB scientists receive the Swiss OpthAward 2024
The Swiss OphthAward recognizes young researchers for their contributions to ophthalmology and related fields. Fiona Müllner received the Swiss OphthAward in the category “Best Experimental Paper” for her work on thalamic inhibitory interneurons and their role in processing visual features published in Neuron this year. Mathieu Quinodoz received the Swiss OphthAward in…
IOB’s winter highlights 2024
Career milestone Postdoctoral fellow Arjun Bharioke became Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC, Charleston, USA). His new lab combines optical methods to interrogate circuits with computational modelling and simulations, to build an understanding of how cortical circuits form, respond to changes, and generate cognitive functions. Grants to IOB researchers…
Spotlight on vision science: IOB featured in Novartis Live N°19
We are delighted to be featured in the latest issue of Novartis Live magazine. The beautifully designed brochure highlights IOB’s work and mission, from groundbreaking work in optogenetics and gene therapy to our growing international team of researchers and to patient impact. We are thrilled and deeply grateful to see our…
Better & more precise diagnostics of genetic diseases
Disease-causing mutations cluster in specific genes Some variants in human genes have no consequences – they are benign, while others cause disease – they are pathogenic and are called mutations. A team led by Carlo Rivolta, Head of our Ophthalmic Genetics Group, in collaboration with the teams of Andrea Superti-Furga…
Mathieu Quinodoz receives 2022 Young Investigator Award
In addition to providing new scientific information, his work will benefit people with ophthalmic diseases and other rare genetic conditions. Mathieu Quinodoz…
Magdalena Renner and Cameron Cowan receive Pfizer Research Prize
Their paper “Cell Types of the Human Retina and Its Organoids at Single-Cell Resolution”, focuses on the identification of cellular targets for studying disease mechanisms in organoids and for targeted repair in human retinas. Magdalena Renner (left) and Cameron Cowan (right)…
Magdalena Renner receives award for Innovative Retina Research from ARVO
Magdalena Renner Renner is also the recipient of the Swiss OphthAWARD Best Experimental Work (2021), the PRO RETINA award of RETINA Suisse and PRO RETINA Germany (2021) and won the 1st place of the VSY Biotechnology Ophthalmology Star Award (2021). Recipients of the Bert M. Glaser, MD Award must demonstrate…
Martin Munz selected as a fellow to the SFARI Bridge to Independence Award program
Martin Munz Martin Munz is a postdoctoral scientist in the laboratory of Botond Roska at the IOB. Together with his main collaborator and fellow lab member Arjun Bharioke and other IOB members, he has been working on two projects to better describe the function and development of cortical layer 5.