2018 Bressler Prize in Vision Science awarded to Botond Roska

Botond Roska from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology in Basel is the recipient of the 2018 Bressler Prize. Lighthouse Guild, a US not-for-profit vision and healthcare organization, honors with the award his scientific achievements that are "powerful, precedent-setting and establish a new standard for retinal research." Botond Roska, is both Senior group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) and Director of the the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology (IOB) in Basel. He earned his MD at the Semmelweis University of Medicine in Budapest, and his PhD from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. After being a Harvard Junior Fellow at Harvard University, he started his research group at the FMI in 2005. He became Director at IOB in 2018. Botond Roska is a renowned expert in neurobiology. He has contributed substantially to the better understanding of the visual processes.