(“Wissenschaftspreis der Stiftung Auge der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft”) In July 2019, Dr. Yanhong Hou was declared the winner of the Science Prize (“Wissenschaftspreis”) of the Eye Foundation (“Stiftung Auge”) of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG). Dr. Hou will be awarded during a ceremony at the annual congress of DOG from […]

Recently Anne Wolf has been awarded with the Retina Suisse Award 2019 at the Swiss Eye Research Meeting in Lausanne (February 2019). Age –related macular degeneration (AMD) leads to hyperactivation of the immune system thus contributing to disease progression and ultimately blindness. The biologist Anne Wolf from Experimental Immunology of […]

DFG Research Unit FOR 2240 begins its second round Good vision is only possible when the anterior part of the eye is transparent. However, when inflammatory reactions in the eye occur, these lead to loss of transparency and sometimes even blindness. An example of such a reaction is the pathological […]