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IOB Director and editor in chief Hendrik Scholl looks back at the year in which the journal transitioned to open access, celebrated its 50th anniversary, and received a record number of submissions

The research of Barbara Świątczak - searching for in vivo marker of myopia development - is featured as Young Researcher's view in the European Vison Research community

Optogenetic gene therapy has helped to partially regain visual function in a patient with retinitis pigmentosa. This clinical study is published in Nature Medicine

Yes, they do! A single-cell transcriptome atlas from multiple developing human organs is now published in Cell 

Virtual reality is recommended for interactive communication of eye diseases, a clinical study in ACTA Ophthalmologica shows

This comprehensive  ophthalmologist and clinical scientist will further strengthen our basic and clinical research, and our collaboration with Heidelberg University 

IOB papers win gold and bronze in the top ten ranking 'publications of the year 2020' of the worldwide vision research community

The computational toolkit allows exploring and visualizing brain organoid patterning, developmental state, and cell identity using single-cell genomic data

Peter Maloca has been elected as member of this international research alliance, dedicated to elucidate the mechanisms of optic disc drusen-related visual loss

With special formats for junior researchers, this year's meeting focuses on precision medicine and innovative model systems for translation research.

Register now for the event on April 9!

She won a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award which recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences. Congratulations!

Lucas Janeschitz-Kriegl und Hendrik Scholl referieren am 4. März zum Thema "Mit welchen Herausforderungen sind die Forschenden bei der Entwicklung einer Therapie für die erbliche Makuladegeneration Morbus Stargardt konfrontiert?"

Botond Roska spoke about “The human retina and its organoids at single cell resolution”

What has been considered as desert zones or "empty" stretches of DNA is responsible for genetic disorders – a Nature paper with major contribution from our 'Rivolta-Group' shows

The T-REX machine learning co-developed at IOB sheds light on discrepancy between how a computer works and how humans think

He won an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship of the University of Basel in the areas of neurophysiology and brain research, and performs his research at IOB, leading our Visual Cortex Plasticity Group