Scientific Founders

Botond is a founding director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel and professor at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science at the University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland. He is an author on more than 80 publications in the areas of gene therapy, regulatory elements, and neuronal circuits. Botond is the recipient of multiple awards and a member of many advisory and editorial boards. He received an M.D. at the Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest, Hungary, and a Ph.D. in neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley.