Prizes and awards

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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 receives award for Innovative Retina Research from ARVO

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 their work…

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…