Botond Roska#
| Membership Number: | 5460 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.iob.ch |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9559-1450 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/botond-roska/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2018 Founding Director, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland
- 2014 Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2010 - 2019 Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- 2005 - 2010 Junior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroscience
- Genetics
- Gene therapy
- Eye
- Retina
- Brain
- Neuronal circuit
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Fulbright Fellow
- 2001 Bearden Memorial Award for Biophysics, UC Berkeley
- 2002 Harvard Junior Fellow
- 2006 Marie Curie Excellence Grant of the European Union
- 2009 EMBO Young Investigator
- 2010 ERC Starting Grant
- 2010 VIVA Award
- 2011 Alcon Award
- 2011 EMBO member
- 2013 Alfred Vogt Award in Ophthalmology
- 2015 ERC Advanced grant
- 2016 Cogan Award of ARVO
- 2018 Bressler Prize in Vision Science, New York
- 2018 Alden W. Spencer Award for Neuroscience
- 2019 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2019 Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
- 2019 Cloëtta Prize
- 2019 Semmelweis Budapest Award
- 2020 ERC Advanced grant
- 2020 Körber European Science Prize
- 2024 Wolf Prize in Medicine
(together with José-Alain Sahel) “for sight-saving and vision restoration to blind people using optogenetics”
