January 29, 2021@SwissNeuro best publication award 2021 in cellular & molecular neuroscienceSwiss Society for Neuroscience honors Dasha Nelidova’s work to make blind retinas see again
January 28, 2021Pfizer Research Prize 2021 goes to Dasha NelidovaOne of the most prestigious awards in the field of biomedical research in Switzerland is Dasha’s fifth recognition for her PhD research. Congratulations!
January 25, 2021Patient-specific avatars of disease for personalised medicineIOB contributes to unleash human organoids’ tremendous potential for biomedical applications: the Organoid Cell Atlas pilot project creates a reference for optimal organoid systems and disease models
January 22, 2021Our new high performance tool for genetic mappingAutoMap enhances molecular diagnosis of inherited diseases. The tool’s description is published in @NatureComms
December 15, 2020Botond Roska receives Greenberg Visionary Prize to End Blindness He was awarded as a representative for "the most major breakthrough in restoration of vision in human patients"
November 27, 2020Powerful approach to identify disease pathwaysScience invited IOB group leader Gray Camp and ETH Zürich Professor Barbara Treutlein to provide their perspective on the combination of in vivo genetic screens with single-cell transcriptome sequencing.
November 20, 2020Renowned global award for Dasha Nelidova As her fourth (!) accolade this year, she received the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists, for her approach of expressing mammalian or snake TRP channels in light-insensitive retinal cones. Congratulations!
November 12, 2020scRapid: Faster Single-cell RNA Sequencing with Unparalleled SensitivitySimone Picelli, Head of our Single-cell Genomics Platform, will share latest breakthroughs and workflow improvements in a webinar. Register for free
October 24, 2020Hendrik Scholl re-elected as Chairman of the EVICR.netHe will serve as Chairman of the European Vision Clinical Research Network until 2023
October 15, 2020New mechanism of disease detected for Retinitis PigmentosaThe IOB 'Rivolta lab' contributed to revealing complex re-arrangements of chromosome 17 instead of gene changes in 22 families with over 300 affected individuals
October 14, 2020Swiss RetinAward 2020 geht an Bence GyörgyGut dokumentiertes Projekt, mit hohem klinischen Nutzen, zudem ein hochinteressantes Thema in der Augenheilkunde und nicht zuletzt Hoffnung für junge Patienten mit einer heute unheilbaren Erbkrankheit; lesen Sie mehr...
October 12, 2020Zwei Forschungspreise von PRO RETINA & Retina Suisse für IOBFür ihre grundlagen-wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten wurden Dasha Nelidova und Josephine Jüttner am 118. DOG Kongress ausgezeichnet
September 24, 2020Tools to study congenital brain malformations and vision disorders in organoidsOur Human Retina and Organoid Development Group published them in Neuron
September 17, 2020Scientists create functional human retinas in a dishA new model to investigate gene therapy for eye diseases was published today in Cell
September 16, 2020Carlo Rivolta elected as a member of the SNSF National Research CouncilHe will serve as Council for eukaryotic genetics and genome analysis in the Biology and Medicine division (Medical Genetics) as of 1 October 2020.