Neurobiologist researcher Dr. Botond Roska was this year’s recipient of the Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen, accepting the honor from President János Áder on August 20 in the Sándor Palace. Dr. Botond Roska received his medical degree from Semmelweis University, and currently is director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, a professor at the University of Basel’s Faculty of Medicine and the head of the neurobiology research group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research.
According to the decree on awarding the honor, Dr. Botond Roska and his colleagues work to learn about human vision and healing its various diseases. Thanks to his research, types of blindness caused by the loss of the eye’s ability to process light could soon be cured. Working with his colleagues, Dr. Botond Roska has developed a therapy that can make the problematic cells of the visual system once again sensitive to light. Read more…
