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👁‍🗨Restoring vision: Warm congratulations to our Director and Group Leader Botond Roska @IOB_Roska on receiving the 24th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize for his groundbreaking work on understanding retinal circuitry and vision restoration. #Vision #Retina #Ophthalmology #Blindness

🧬 New IRD gene identified! IOB researchers around @abi_moye & collaborators found pathogenic variants in SAXO6 (formerly MDM1) in families with a rare late-onset retinal degeneration. Published in @AJHGnews 🔗cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/… #Ophthalmology #IRDs #Genetics #VisionResearch

The discovery: variants in five RNA genes affect the cell's splicing machinery. This greatly expands our understanding of hereditary blindness and lay groundwork for developing treatments. Full story: nature.com/articles/s4158… #Genetics #VisionResearch #IRDs #Ophthalmology

30-40% of retinitis pigmentosa cases go undiagnosed. The study team analyzed 5,000 individuals and found mutations in non-coding RNA genes explain up to 1.4% of these cases, thus providing answers for dozens of families worldwide.

🧬 BREAKTHROUGH: IOB researchers have identified a new genetic cause of inherited blindness in previously unexplored regions of the genome. Published today in @NatureGenet 🧵Thread ⬇️

✨New hope for vision restoration: Congrats to @BenceGyoergy on his 5-year @ERC_Research Consolidator Grant. He will advance base editing to fix mutations in genetic macular degeneration and explore therapies for corneal blindness. #ERCCoG #BaseEditing #VisionResearch

✨New hope for vision restoration at IOB: congrats to @BenceGyoergy on his 5-year @ERC_Research Consolidator Grant. He will advance base editing to fix mutations in genetic macular degeneration and explore therapies for corneal blindness. #ERCCoG #BaseEditing #VisionResearch

👏 Congrats to Karolina Kaminska on winning the PRO RETINA Research Award 2025 for her recent paper in AJHG!

👁️Advances in vision restoration: Discover how a human TRPV1 channel variant can make blind retina responsive to safe near-infrared light. No opsins, no nanoparticles involved. 🔗 bit.ly/4gt0LO5 #Neurotech #ProteinEngineering #TRPChannels #SyntheticBiology #Vision

🧬 New IRD gene atlas to guide diagnosis, research, and therapy: Our study with experts from ERDC, published in @AJHGnews, introduces RetiGene. 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Genetics #VisionResearch #IRDs #Ophthalmology #RareDiseases #RetinalDisease #RNation

🔬 Organoids in the spotlight! Magdalena Renner, leading IOB’s organoid platform, shares how high-throughput organoid systems are transforming research and speeding up the path to therapies for eye diseases. Read more: bit.ly/4mquwjP #Vision #HistoBrick #Blindness

👏Warm congratulations to our former IOB postdoctoral fellow @FionaMuellner on her new role as Group Leader at @dandrite & Associate Professor at Aarhus University — and on receiving a prestigious ERC Starting Grant! @ERC_Research

This changes how we think about vision: timing coordination starts in the eye - not the brain! Check out @Annalis43262927 & @FelixFranke7's discovery: nature.com/articles/s4159… #Neuroscience #Vision #RGCs #RetinalResearch Image © IOB, 2025, generated with DALL-E

🧠👁️ Your eye has hidden superpower! @FelixFranke7 & @Annalis43262927 show in @NatureNeuro how the retina acts as "secret clockwork" - synchronizing signals before reaching the brain⏱️ nature.com/articles/s4159… #Neuroscience #Vision #RGCs Image © IOB, 2025, generated with ChatGPT

✨ Discover how research and patient care come together in the latest Novartis Live magazine — with stories from the labs and clinics shaping the future of vision. 🔗iob.ch/news-view-all?… #IOB #VisionScience #TranslationalResearch #Basel #Ophthalmology #Novartis

🔬 We're hiring a Research Assistant (Full-Time) at IOB Basel! Join our Single-cell Genomics Platform team. 🎓 Background in Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, or a related field + strong NGS experience required. 📍 Basel, Switzerland 📩 Apply now: iob.ch/join-iob/open-…

🔬 We're hiring! Research Assistant/Associate (100%) – Molecular Mechanisms of Myopia 📍 Location: Basel 🧪 Background in molecular biology, genomics, neuroscience or related field 💼 Full-time position Apply now or share! iob.ch/join-iob/open-…