Eberhart Zrenner

A graduate in electronic engineering as well as in medicine, Eberhart Zrenner’s career has merged his clinical and research interests. He founded the Institute for Ophthalmic Research at the University of Tübingen Center for Ophthalmology, where he runs a special clinic for patients with hereditary retinal degenerations. His research pursuits include retinal physiology and pathophysiology, ophthalmogenetics and retinal implants. In this issue, he writes about the development of a subretinal active microphotodiode array (MPDAs) to replace degenerated photoreceptors in blind people.

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Business & Profession Retina

Seeing the Unseeable

09/23/2013 | Eberhart Zrenner

Retinal implants offer hope for the treatment of inherited blindness. Clinical trials of battery-powered subretinal and epiretinal devices have demonstrated that patients with retinitis pigmentosa, blind for many years, can once again recognize objects.

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08/31/2013 | Phoebe Harkin, Ruth Steer, Roisin McGuigan, Mark Hillen, Michael Schubert, James Talks, Mark Talary, Tiarnan Keenan, Andreas Layer, Michael F. Chiang, Alain Saad, Alex Huang, Gregory D. Parkhurst, Hakam Ghabra, Mauricio Pérez, Alex Walsh, Pearse Keane, Hemlata Gupta, Karl Golnik, Jim Taylor, David Boyer, Francisco Sánchez León, Nikki Hafezi, Florian Kretz, Elizabeth Yeu, Sathish Srinivasan, Pooja Bandivadekar, Tushar Agarwal, Milind Pande, Niro Narendran, Michael Mrochen, Ray Radford, Ike Ahmed, Bala Ambati, Frederik Raiskup, Farhad & Nikki Hafezi, Bobby Qureshi, Arthur Cummings, Luis Izquierdo Jr., Jodhbir (Jod) Mehta, Bojan Pajic, Robert Montés-Micó, Boris Stanzel, Carl Glittenberg, Steven Vold, Renato Ambrósio Jr., Marsha Link, Erik Mertens, Bruce Allan, Juan Mura, Mark Latina, Gunther Grabner, Cathy Schanzer, M. Stewart Galloway, Jesper Hjortdal, Shafiq Rehma, Adam Jacobs, Mark Latina, José Cunha-Vaz, J. Martin Collinson, John West, Hongming Chen, Justin Hanes, Robert Langer, Amanda Hayhurst, Theo Seiler, Rod Solar, Cécile Delcourt, Sanjay Mantry, Anita Nevyas-Wallace, Carlos Buznego , Joannah Vaughan, David Huang, Pete Sudbury, Gerd Auffarth, Sibylle Scholtz, Farhad Hafezi, Paul Karpecki, Rachel Pilling, Michael Mrochen, David Geffen, Takami Sato , Carol Shields, Isabelle Leach, Alain Saad , Nicole Kretz, Andy Davies, Ehud Assia, Stela Vujosevic, Mark Blecher, Laura Hobbs, Marie-José Tassignon, Johan Blanckaert, Gullapalli Rao, David Kent, Marc Muraine, Magali Saint-Geniez and Patricia D’Amore, Kristine Morrill , Irv Arons, Marianne Shahsuvaryan, Sebastian Waldstein, Gregory Hageman, Fedra Hajizadeh , David Keegan, Scott Mackie, Caroline McHugh, Florian Gekeler, Nadir Bayoumi, Sophia Ktori , Rolf Schwind , Grace Willatt, Jeff Machat, Sondra Black, David Andrews, Eberhart Zrenner, Harminder Dua, Mark Shusterman, Arthur Cummings, Richard Gallagher, Mark Zacharria