Eberhart Zrenner

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Eberhart Zrenner (born October 18, 1945 in Munich ) was Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Tübingen and Director of the Research Institute for Ophthalmology at the University Eye Clinic in Tübingen . Since April 2013 he has been a senior professor at the Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neurosciences (CIN).

Career

Zrenner is head of an interdisciplinary research group that has been developing an electronic retinal implant (a light-sensitive neuroprosthesis ) since the mid-1990s . This approximately 3 × 3 mm "eye chip" can be inserted under the retina in patients who have become blind in the course of their lives due to the loss of photoreceptors . There the bipolar cells that are still present are electrically stimulated . So far, the test subjects have been able to differentiate between light and dark and in some cases horizontal and vertical lines. In the long term, it is hoped that, similar to the cochlear implant for the deaf , an implant will be developed that gives the blind at least a certain ability to see (orientation in space, large objects, etc.). For this work he was awarded the Bartimaeus Prize in 2006 . In March 2007, the results of an initial trial on 7 patients were presented to the public. In December 2009 he received the Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize , and in 2012 he was the first German to receive the Ludwig von Sallmann Prize, endowed with US $ 35,000. In 2013 he was awarded the Hector Science Prize, endowed with 150,000 euros, and was accepted into the Hector Fellow Academy .

After his retirement in April 2013 he was appointed to a senior professorship at the Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neurosciences (CIN). For 2016, Zrenner was awarded the Graefe Medal, which is only awarded every 10 years .

Eberhart Zrenner is the founder and chairman of the supervisory board of Retina Implant AG ( Reutlingen ), a spin-off from the University of Tübingen that manufactures the retinal implant. He is also a member of the Science Council , the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (since 1996) and the Leopoldina (since 1997). He has also been a member of the University Council of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2007 . He is chairman of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Board (WMB) of Pro Retina Germany .

Fonts

  • The influence of the modulation transfer function of the frog's eye on the intensity distribution of the retinal image as a function of the defocusing (unpublished dissertation TU Munich 1973)
  • Neurophysiological aspects of color vision in primates: comparative studies on simian retinal ganglion cells and the human visual system , 1983 ( ISBN 3-540-11653-2 , ISBN 0-387-11653-2 )
  • Scientific and practical aspects of neuroprosthetics: subretinal multiphotodiode fields as "eye prostheses" , printed version of a lecture, 2003 ( ISBN 3-506-71697-2 )
  • Drug side effects and intoxications in neuroophthalmology , in: Practical Neuroophthalmology , 2004 ( ISBN 3-922777-56-2 ), pp. 213-22
  • Vision chips - hope for the blind (with H. Haemmerle), in: Spectrum of Science , special edition 2/2004, pp. 20-25

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data from Eberhart Zrenner in: Who is Who - The German Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 1583, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
  2. ↑ Awarding of the Hector Science Prize
  3. ^ Founding ceremony of the Hector Fellow Academy
  4. ↑ Keynote Lecture Saturday - DOG2016. In: dog2016.dog-kongress.de. Retrieved February 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Zrenner, Eberhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, professor for ophthalmology in Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich