The Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) is seeking a highly motivated Research Scientist to take part in IOB's vision restoration development program. The candidate will be integrated in the Ophthalmic Translation Research Group led by Bence Gyorgy and the Quantitative Visual Physiology Group led by Felix Franke.
IOB is a research institute combining basic and clinical research. Its mission is to drive innovations in understanding vision and its diseases and develop new therapies for vision loss. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your abilities challenged, and your knowledge expanded.
We seek an exemplary scientist to join our efforts in developing therapies for vision loss. The successful candidate will pursue experimental work in testing optogenetic, sensor-based gene therapy vectors to restore photosensitivity in the retina. The candidate will use microelectrode array (MEA) technologies in post-mortem human retinas. The successful candidate will also perform data analysis of the recordings and work closely with other experimentalists and data analysts at IOB.
The ideal candidate will have a background in electrophysiology and related data analysis techniques including strong programming skills and be familiar with a broad array of work in neuroscience, including optogenetics and its applications in teasing apart circuit physiology
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