Exciting News: Celebrating the First IOB PhD Graduate, Stefan Spirig, with Summa Cum Laude Honors! 🎓🌟 Join us in applauding his remarkable accomplishment. 👏 #PhDCompletion #SummaCumLaudeSuccess #CongratulationsDrSpirig

🎆 Sincere Congratulations to Stefan Spirig and his collaborators for this fascinating preprint about a large compound screen targeting cone-degeneration in human retinal organoids! 🎆

#IOB #coneoptogenetics #humanretinalorganoids #maculardegeneration

📢👏Congratulations to Botond Roska and José-Alain Sahel for winning the International Prize for Translational Neuroscience by the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation, managed by the Max Planck Society.

Read more insights here: ow.ly/kGBK50OU6Ao

#Optogenetics #IOB

Thanks to all the co-authors that contributed to our paper, out in Cell today: doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

bharioke_neuro, Georg Kosche , @Kika_MJ , FEMTONICS , Cameron S Cowan , @roska_iob and everyone else

See our tweet thread, linked below...

We had a chance to chat with Angie Voyles Askham about our work on embryonic development & links with autism.

Here's her really nice summary in Spectrum (Autism Research News)

Thanks also to the other researchers who commented on our work. It's exciting to hear their thoughts.

spectrumnews.org/news/autism-li…

Read more about the exciting new results of a collaboration between IOB and Beam Therapeutics on developing a precision gene editing therapy for blindness here biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nice article about our work on Spectrum (Autism Research News) (Autism Research News). Also very happy to see that some of my scientific heroes have commented on our work in the article!

Exciting new insights from the Botond Roska lab into the formation of cortical circuits during embryonic development in Martin Munz and bharioke_neuro new paper, out in Cell today: doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

Go and read the exciting new findings about visual information processing in the brain by our scientists Fiona Müllner and Botond Roska here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #Neurology #research #iob

💡 Learn more about the newly published study on The first genetic landscape of inherited retinal dystrophies in Portuguese patients identifies recurrent homozygous mutations as a frequent cause of pathogenesis by our Ophthalmic Genetics Group here: bit.ly/3l4Vggk

✨🙌🏼 Happy International Women's Day and thank you to all our amazing and talented female researchers and clinicians who are committed to IOB’s goal to develop new treatments for vision loss! #internationalwomensday #research #iob #womeninscience

Revolutionizing organoid research with OrganEYEzer! 🙌 Developed by CSEM and IOB.ch, this new automated sorting tech uses #AI and a built-in microscope to identify high-quality retinal #organoids for #drugdiscovery and #personalizedmedicine . 🔬: ow.ly/RCBP50N0p6h

See what exciting things are happening at Rava Azeredo da Silveira's Lab!

ISER Great to meet so many collaborators & friends in person #ISER2023 Carlo Rivolta IOB.ch

Don't miss Hendrik Scholl's talk «Towards Vision Restoration Using Cone Optogenetics» tomorrow at Singapore National Eye Centre and join virtually for the lecture! Find more information here: bit.ly/3EuFu4z

After more than two years of virtual meetings, we finally had our first real life townhall in the beautiful Grossratssaal of the Basler Town Hall with all IOB members. Thanks to all our team members for attending this event - 2023 is going to be great! #iob #ophthalmology

💡 Did you know that a person affected by glaucoma has to lose about 50 percent of the ganglion cells to notice a visual dysfunction? Read more about the disease in the expert interview with Konstantin Gugleta here: bit.ly/3XWLTNp #glaucoma #research #glaucoma awareness

Read more about the beauty of 'seeing' - nicely put by Angelika Jacobs

📣 January is glaucoma awareness month! Read more about IOB’s research on Glaucoma here: bit.ly/3WluP2u #iob #research #glaucomaresearch #ophthalmology

Read the interview with Botond Roska Botond Roska about his work and vision!
#research #iob #genetherapy #retina #neuroscience