Author Archives: Julia Frenkle
IOB’s first spinout RhyGaze receives major funding
Funding enables progress of RhyGaze lead asset through early clinical trials Led by GV, series participants included Arch Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital and RhyGaze founding investors BioGeneration Ventures and Novartis Venture Fund RhyGaze, a biotechnology company based in Basel, Switzerland and Philadelphia, Pa., USA, today announced that it has secured…
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.
Mathieu Quinodoz receives award from PRO RETINA Deutschland and Retina Suisse
For this publication Mathieu and his colleagues used a machine learning approach to analyze the within-gene distribution of missense variants observed in hereditary conditions such as retinal degenerations and cancer. “I am honored to receive the award. With our paper we aim to contribute to generating better and more precise…
Bence György elected to the Gene Therapy Working Group of the Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety
The group supports the SECB in its advisory tasks related to the approval of clinical trials of gene therapy or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the market authorization of such products. Find out more about the working group here…
IOB researchers discover a new embryonic brain circuit
Layer 5 pyramidal neurons in normal mice (left) compared with mice with autism gene knocked-out (right), showing a patch of disorganized cortex. Congratulations to both of you! Could you tell us a bit more about what your newly published study is about? Arjun Bharioke: Thanks! This study provides the first…