Botond Roska
Title: “Drawing breath after spinal cord injury”
Bio: Botond Roska obtained his M.D. at the Semmelweis Medical School, a Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of California, Berkeley and studied genetics and virology as a Harvard Society Fellow at Harvard University and the Harvard Medical School. He then led a research group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel from 2005-2018. In 2010 he became Professor at the Medical Faculty and in 2019 Professor at the Science Faculty of the University of Basel. Since 2018 he is a founding director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB). At IOB he leads a research group focusing on the understanding of vision and its diseases and the development of gene therapies to restore vision. Botond Roska has received several awards and was elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO, 2011), the Academia Europaea (2020), the Hungarian Academy of Science (2022) and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2023).
Affiliation: Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland
