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At the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), we unite researchers and clinicians to restore vision.

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

New hope for patients living with inherited vision loss: Scientists uncover mutations in three genes (AP5Z1, AP5M1, AP5B1) revealing a new cause of hereditary macular dystrophy and offering expanded diagnostic capabilities. 🔗cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/… #RareDiseases #Ophthalmology

IOB_ch's tweet image. New hope for patients living with inherited vision loss:
Scientists uncover mutations in three genes (AP5Z1, AP5M1, AP5B1) revealing a new cause of hereditary macular dystrophy and offering expanded diagnostic capabilities.
🔗cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/…
#RareDiseases #Ophthalmology


👁️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

IOB_ch's tweet image. 👁️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

IOB_ch's tweet image. 🧬 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

IOB_ch's tweet image. 🔬 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

IOB_ch's tweet image. 👏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

IOB_ch's tweet image. 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

IOB_ch's tweet image. 🧠👁️ 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

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✨ 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

IOB_ch's tweet image. ✨ 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-…


What drives myopia? New article by Frank Schaeffel et al. reviews 50 years of key discoveries – from retinal control to the role of light and dopamine. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/op… #Myopia #VisionResearch #Ophthalmology #GlobalHealth Image © IOB, generated with Google AI, 2025

IOB_ch's tweet image. What drives myopia?
New article by Frank Schaeffel et al. reviews 50 years of key discoveries – from retinal control to the role of light and dopamine.
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/op… 

#Myopia #VisionResearch #Ophthalmology #GlobalHealth

Image © IOB, generated with Google AI, 2025

🧬New IOB study reveals the genetic causes of inherited blindness in over 700 individuals from Pakistan. 📖 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s41525… #Genomics #IRD #Ophthalmology #GlobalHealth Image © IOB, generated with Google AI, Gemini

IOB_ch's tweet image. 🧬New IOB study reveals the genetic causes of inherited blindness in over 700 individuals from Pakistan.
📖 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s41525…
#Genomics #IRD #Ophthalmology #GlobalHealth
Image © IOB, generated with Google AI, Gemini

🧠 Randomness leads to efficiency! Random neural patterns can process information more effectively than precisely tuned ones. Nature's surprising solution to brain computations. Published in @CellReports: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @Rava_daSilveira #Neuroscience #ScienceNews

IOB_ch's tweet image. 🧠 Randomness leads to efficiency!
Random neural patterns can process information more effectively than precisely tuned ones. Nature's surprising solution to brain computations.
Published in @CellReports: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@Rava_daSilveira
#Neuroscience #ScienceNews

New hope for patients living with inherited vision loss: Scientists uncover mutations in three genes (AP5Z1, AP5M1, AP5B1) revealing a new cause of hereditary macular dystrophy and offering expanded diagnostic capabilities. 🔗cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/… #RareDiseases #Ophthalmology

IOB_ch's tweet image. New hope for patients living with inherited vision loss:
Scientists uncover mutations in three genes (AP5Z1, AP5M1, AP5B1) revealing a new cause of hereditary macular dystrophy and offering expanded diagnostic capabilities.
🔗cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/…
#RareDiseases #Ophthalmology

🚨IOB Hiring! 🔬 Ophthalmic Translational Research Group. at IOB is hiring & looking for: 💼 In vivo Research Assistant, Translational Research 📍 Basel, Switzerland 🔗 Learn more & apply: iob.ch/join-iob/open-… Apply or share this post with your network. #IOB #Hiring


🚨IOB Hiring! 🔬 Ophthalmic Translational Research Group. at IOB is hiring & looking for: 💼 Research Assistant, Translational Research 📍 Basel, Switzerland 🔗 Learn more & apply: iob.ch/join-iob/open-… Apply or share this post with your network.


🚨IOB Hiring! 🔬 The Protein Engineering platform at IOB is hiring & looking for: 💼 Research Assistant, Molecular Biology 📍 Basel, Switzerland 🔗 Learn more & apply: iob.ch/join-iob/open-… Apply or share this post with your network.


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