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An expert panel of retina specialists of the American Academy of Ophthalmology awarded a paper from the ProgStar study group as the one that they rated most highly.

Gray Camp is Head of our Human Retina and Organoid Development Group, and co-senior author of the study published in NATURE. With collaborating researchers from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and of ETH Zurich, he presents new insights into the development of the human brain.

Congratulations to Carlo Rivolta, Head of our Ophthalmic Genetics Group. The European Vision Institute EEIG features him as visionary of the quarter.

A video of a presentation (with slides embedded) given by HPN Scholl at the ISGEDR 2019 Joint Meeting with DOG at Giessen, including a summary of the main ProgStar study results.

BBC-One (at ‘BBC breakfast’) recently featured three Leicester sisters who had their entire genomes sequenced in the hope of finding answers to their family history of breast cancer.

Read more to learn why this matters for our research.

A study to better understand the consequences of therapeutic genome editing, driven by Bence György, Head of Clinical Translation, is now available in Nature Communications.

Gray Camp, Head of the IOB Human Retina & Organoid Development Group and colleagues from DBSSE reviewed how single-cell genomics, stem cell engineering, and CRISPR-Cas technologies have revolutionized the effort to understand human cell phenotypes.

Watch the four minute video with Hendrik Scholl to get the current news on retinal dystrophies.

We hope to see you at the public lecture on Thursday, September 26, 11:15h, main auditorium of Zentrum für Lehre und Forschung (ZLF), Hebelstrasse 20, Basel. No registration is required.

Carlo Rivolta is co-senior author of an article published in PLoS Genetics, which shows that a previously retinal-associated protein is essential for sperm tail development and assembly.

Hendrik Scholl has been awarded with the Alfred-Vogt-Award for implementing the international ProgStar Study, and for acting as principal investigator. Congratulations!

She received the SwissOphthAWARD for the best experimental work at the 112th SOG/SSO congress.

Hendrik Scholl erhält den A. Vogt-Preis zur Förderung der Augenheilkunde 2019; Josephine Jüttner den SWISS OphthAWARD 2019 für die beste experimentelle Arbeit. Wir gratulieren!

An EVI-Consensus in Ophthalmic Research defines unmet needs that can realistically be addressed in the next 5 years.

President János Áder decorated our Molecular Director with the Hungarian Saint Stephen Order, "to celebrate Hungarians whose outstanding talent and achievements serve the well-being and prosperity of many others."

A validated, fully automated and cloud-based analysis for pigmented choroidal tumors - free of charge and open access - will be further developed to detect other retinal pathologies, such as age-related macular degeneration or presence of macular fluid.