Botond Roska is founding Director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and Professor at the University of Basel. He studied medicine at Semmelweis University, earned a PhD in neurobiology at UC Berkeley, and was a Harvard Society Fellow. He previously led a research group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (2005-2018). At IOB, he leads a research group focusing on the understanding of vision and its diseases and the development of gene therapies to restore vision.