Botond Roska, Director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology in Basel and co-founder of the BrainVisionCenter in Budapest, gave a lecture at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where he serves as a Neumann János Professor. In his presentation titled Restoring Vision, he introduced a new therapeutic approach developed at his institute, which could mark a breakthrough in the treatment of visual impairments. Roska emphasized that the foundation of this therapy lies in basic research that revealed the retina is not merely a light sensor, but a “visual computer” in its own right. Before visual information reaches the brain, the retina processes it through over a hundred types of nerve cells, breaking it down into around 30 components.
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