Bence György is now an Assistant Professor at Basel University, next to being Head of our IOB Ophthalmic Translational Research Group, plus leader of the Translational Research Projects for Usher Syndrome, Base Editing and Early Onset for Severe Retinal Dystrophies.
He won one of the prestigious once-in-a-lifetime SNSF Eccelenza Fellowship Awards, for his project “Precision gene therapy for inherited blindness”. Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement!
“I am very happy to be receiving this award. It is a very important contribution to further accelerate the development and delivery of innovative novel therapies for fighting blindness. It will boost our translational projects for developing a gene therapy,” says Bence.
Next to Felix Franke and Andreas J Keller, Bence György is the third IOB group leader winning this prestigious award.
About the SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships
An SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship can only be received once in during a lifetime career. The SNSF uses them to finance outstanding young researches who aspire to a permanent professorship. The five-year funding period comprises salary for the Awardee plus project funds of up to one million Swiss francs for five years. This enables the promising researchers to lead a research project with their own team.
The fellowships are connected with an appointment to the position of assistant professor at the institution chosen by the researchers for their project.