Prizes and awards
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Botond Roska honored with 24th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize
The 24th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize has been awarded to IOB Director Botond Roska, in recognition of his work developing approaches to decode retinal circuitry and restore vision. At IOB, Botond Roska leads the Human Retinal and Central Visual Circuits Group. Roska’s lab explores how visual information is processed across the…
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…
Botond Roska and José-Alain Sahel win the Wolf Prize 2024 in the field of medicine
The Wolf Prize, considered one of the most prestigious international awards, recognizes outstanding achievements in various fields including medicine. Botond Roska, Director at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and Professor at the University of Basel, and José-Alain Sahel, Chair of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh…
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 brings major European grant to Basel for gene therapies against vision loss
After several years of interruption, ERC Consolidator calls reopened this year to researchers in Switzerland, and Bence György’s proposal was selected among 3121 applications from across Europe. Researchers who receive ERC grants are considered among the strongest in their fields. The ERC grant provides around EUR 2 million over five…
Long-time collaborators Botond Roska and José-Alain Sahel win international prize for Translational Neuroscience
Basel, Switzerland, June, 2023In recognition of their pioneering work on restoring vision to blind patients using optogenetic therapy, Botond Roska and José-Alain Sahel were today awarded the International Prize for Translational Neuroscience by the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation, managed by the Max Planck Society. The annual prize rewards biomedical scientists and…
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…