Botond Roska wins world's top award for vision research

Prof. Dr. Botond Roska. (Photo: Ruy Ochoa)

Prof. Dr. Botond Roska. (Photo: Ruy Ochoa)

Botond Roska, a professor at the University of Basel and director of science at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), will receive the 2026 António Champalimaud Vision Award together with José-Alain Sahel of the University of Pittsburgh. The prize, worth one million euros, is the world’s largest award in vision research and ophthalmology.

The award recognizes more than two decades of fundamental, translational and clinical research by Roska and Sahel. It also honors the IOB’s mission to understand the mechanisms of vision and translate these discoveries into new therapies for vision loss.
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