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Botond Roska is a Hungarian medical doctor and biomedical researcher. Much of his research is on the pathways of visual perception and how to treat diseases that cause blindness.

Botond  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. In 2018 he was 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.

Awards: Botond has received several awards. He was elected as a member of EMBO (2011), the Academia Europaea (2020), the Hungarian Academy of Science (2022) and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2023).

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