December 13, 2021Horizon NEURON project @IOBDaniel Hillier just won a Horizon funded ERA-NET NEURON grant for an amblyopia project, as leader of an international research consortium
November 24, 2021Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology finalist Andreas KellerWhen there is nothing to see, we see what we expect to see. Proving this was hard work for the team, and worth an international prize. More…
November 22, 2021Congratulations to Bence GyörgyHe won a once-in-a-lifetime SNSF Eccelenza Fellowship Award
October 28, 2021RetinAward 2021 for Mathieu QuinodozAnother trophy for our considerable collection of research awards
September 15, 2021Two scientists of IOB are among the winners of the Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) 2021!Congratulations to Arjun Bharioke and Martin Munz who will be presenting their research on January 20, 2022 in London as one of four winners of the Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) for the Sainsbury Wellcome Center.
September 02, 2021Highest Swiss Distinction in OphthalmologyCarlo Rivolta and Dasha Nelidova have been awarded with Alfred-Vogt Awards 2021. Congratulations!
August 27, 2021Swiss OphthAward 2021 goes to IOBCongratulations to Magdalena Renner and Cameron Cowan. They received the Swiss OphthAward 2021 for the «Best Experimental Work».
August 10, 2021ARVO-SWISS Scientific Session on Artificial Intelligence in OphthalmologyDo not miss the ARVO-SWISS Scientific Session on Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology, at this year's SOG Annual Meeting in St. Gallen on August 26
July 27, 20212020 in Review for Ophthalmic ResearchIOB 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
July 08, 2021Inhibiting myopia by visual stimulationThe 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
May 24, 2021Optogenetic methods restore partial vision in a blind patientOptogenetic gene therapy has helped to partially regain visual function in a patient with retinitis pigmentosa. This clinical study is published in Nature Medicine
May 20, 2021Can organoids recapitulate human development?Yes, they do! A single-cell transcriptome atlas from multiple developing human organs is now published in Cell
May 18, 2021Explaining eye diseases to very young patients Virtual reality is recommended for interactive communication of eye diseases, a clinical study in ACTA Ophthalmologica shows
May 01, 2021Welcome Jost Jonas!This comprehensive ophthalmologist and clinical scientist will further strengthen our basic and clinical research, and our collaboration with Heidelberg University
March 18, 2021Two of the top ten papers 2020 are from IOB authorsIOB papers win gold and bronze in the top ten ranking 'publications of the year 2020' of the worldwide vision research community