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This year, a record number of 156 non-profit eye health initiatives from 38 countries were submitted - Congratulations to the XOVA Winners 2020
» eXcellence in Ophthalmology Vision Award (XOVA) 2020
"It is an exciting time for personalized medicine. We expect there to be rapid innovations to further develop brain and retina organoid protocols for high-throughput screening, as well as toward near-physiological completeness, and single-cell genomic technologies are in place to resolve...
» Tools to study congenital brain malformations and vision disorders in organoids
New "Cell" publication reports on accurate replications of human retinas in culture that can be used to pinpoint the specific types of cells affected by genetic eye diseases.
» Scientists create functional human retinas in a dish
Scientific American: We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history - until now
» Scientific American endorses Joe Biden
Gene therapy to the inner retina prevented blindness in a mouse model of the neuro-degenerative disorder CLN3 Batten disease. Adeno-associated viral (AAV)-mediated expression of the human CLN3 gene led to significant survival of bipolar cells and pre-served retinal function, as reported in the...
» Gene therapy targets inner retina to combat blindness
Since 2020, the Hector Fellow Academy offers the opportunity to apply for the Hector Research Career Development Award (Hector RCD Award). W1 assistant professors (with or without Tenure Track) and junior research group leaders in similar positions in natural or engineering sciences, medicine or...
» Creating the Future - Hector Research Career Development Award 2020
A new approach that solves this issue has been developed at the Vision Institute by the team of Jean Livet in collaboration with the laboratories of Stéphane Nedelec and Alexandra Rebsam at the Institut du Fer à Moulin, Michel Cohen-Tannoudji at the Pasteur Institute and Samuel Tozer at the Ecole...
» A new genetic switch for stem cell engineering
In the last decade, mice have become an important model system for biomedical research. Many ideas of how the healthy visual system works stems from studies in mice. Recently, a paper by Szatko, Korympidou and colleagues in Nature Communications answered a fundamental question about mouse vision –...
» Neural circuits in the mouse retina support color vision in the upper visual field
A new article recently published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) highlights the role for the specialised arrangement of the mitochondria in photoreceptor health and disease. The paper, "Symmetric arrangement of mitochondria: plasma membrane...
» Mitochondria assist in maintaining homeostasis across the photoreceptor cell layer
The Ophthalmologist Power List 2020 honours clinicians, scientists and engineers who have made a significant contribution to their field.
» The Ophthalmologist Power list 2020