Prof. Jost B. Jonas, MD, joins our Clinical Research Center as Guest Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology & International Ophthalmology. In parallel, he is keeping his position as Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, Germany.
“We are delighted to have Jost join our teams of basic and clinical researchers. His expertise will help us to further accelerate the development of our novel therapies for blinding conditions”, says Hendrik Scholl, Clinical Director at IOB.
Jost Jonas has got research interests in several ocular diseases, including glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, the process of emmetropization and myopization, and many others.
He has been instrumental in numerous international ophthalmological clinical studies. His publication track record is truly unique: he contributed to more than a thousand peer-reviewed publications to date, in more than 137 as a first or last author. His h-index is 146 (google scholar) and him joining IOB means that the University of Basel will have a new top rank member in publications and citations.
Jost Jonas is a member of prestigious research societies, among them the German Academy of Science Leopoldina, the Glaucoma Society of the International Congress of Ophthalmology, the Macula Society and Retina Society and the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis.
He is also honorary Member of the French Ophthalmological Society and Asia-Pacific Vitreoretinal Society and Fellow of the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).
He has received the Glaucoma Award of the German Ophthalmologic Society, the Junior and Senior Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Senior Clinical Scientist Award of the World Glaucoma Association, the Prof. Robert-Ritch Glaucoma Award, the International Gold Awards of the Chinese Ophthalmologic Society, and the Senior Award of the Asian Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology.
Welcome Jost Jonas!
