Prinicipal Investigator
Pathophysiology of Vision
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Eberhart Zrenner
| Surname | Zrenner |
| First name | Eberhart |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Present position and title | Prof. Dr. med. Dr.h.c.mult., CIN Senior Professor of Ophthalmology |
Business address
Werner Reichardt Centrum für Integrative Neurowissenschaften (CIN)
Institute for Ophthalmic Research
Centre for Ophthalmology,
University of Tübingen
Elfriede-Aulhorn-Strasse 7
D-72076 Tübingen,
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)7071 29-84786
Fax: +49 (0)7071 29-5038
E-mail: ezrenner[at]uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Education
| 1967-72 | Medicine and Electronic Engineering, University of Erlangen and Munich |
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| 1973 | MD, Medicine (Information transfer in the eye) (summa cum laude) |
| 1973 - 1974 | Post Doc, Sensory physiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Physiol. and Clin. Research |
| 1977 - 1978 | Fogarty fellowship, Neurophysiology, National Inst. of Health, USA |
| 1981 | Habilitation, Cell physiology, University of Giessen |
| 1985 | Ophthalmological board exam, University of Munich |
Professional experience
| 1973 | Internship in Surgery and Internal Medicine, Munich |
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| 1974-1976 | Research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research, Bad Nauheim, Dept. of Experimental Ophthalmology, and Eye Hospital of Frankfurt University |
| 1977-1978 | Fogarty International Fellow, National Eye Institute, NIH, Bethesda USA, Laboratory of Vision Research |
| 1979-1984 | Experimental Ophthalmology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research, Bad Nauheim and and University Eye Hospital Munich |
| 1985-1989 | Associate Professor and Head of a Research Unit of the Max-Planck-Society at the University Eye Hospital, Munich (Prof. Lund) ; Honorary Prof., Univ. of Giessen |
| 1989 | Full professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Germany |
| 1989 to present | Chairman of the Department "Pathophysiology of Vision and Neuro-Ophthalmology" and Head of the Division of Experimental Ophthalmology at the University of Tuebingen, now Institute for Ophthalmic Research at the Centre for Ophthalmology |
| 1991- 2007 | Executive Director of the University Eye Hospital Tübingen |
| 1992 | Offer of Prof. at Aston-University, Birmingham, England (declined) |
| 1993 | Offer of Head of Dept. Ophthal., McGill Univ. Montreal Canada (declined) |
| 1994 – 1995 | Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Tuebingen |
| 1995 to present | Coordination of the Consortium " Subretinal Implants" |
| 1998 - 2000 | Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University Tuebingen |
| 2007 – 2011 | Director of the Centre for Ophthalmology, together with Prof. K.U. Bartz-Schmidt |
| 2007 – 2011 | Director of the Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen |
| 2007 – 2011 | Head of the strategy committee of the Medical Faculty, Tuebingen |
| Since 2011 | Speaker of the Board of the Center for Neurosensory Systems (ZfN), University of Tuebingen |
Awards, Honors & Functions:
| 1973 | Dissertation award for an experimental study on the optic qualities of the eye |
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| 1979 | Franceschetti-Liebrecht-Award of the German Ophthalmological Society |
| 1995 | Alcon Research Award (100.000$) |
| 1998 | Election as Member of the "Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften" |
| 1999 | Election as Member of the Leopoldina - German Academy of Sciences |
| 2000 | von Graefe-Award of the German Ophthalmological Society |
| 2006 | "Bartimaeus Award" of the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology awarded at the World Congress of Artificial Vision 2006 |
| 2007 | Emiko Adachi-Award of the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV) |
| 2009 | Pfizer-Award, Visiting Professorship, SUNY, New York |
| 2009 | Karl-Heinz Beckurts Award 2009 |
| 2009 | Claere-Jung-Preis of the EURETINA |
| 2010 | Retina International: Special Recognition Award |
| 2011 | Edridge Green Award |
| 2011 | EURETINA Innovation Award |
| 2011 | Honorary doctorate, Naresuan University, Thailand |
| 2012 | Honorary doctorate, University of Lublin, Poland |
| 2013 | Hector Preis - Hector Stiftung, Weinheim |
| 2014 | Reinhard-von-Koenig-Preis |
| 2015 | Gold Medal of the Saudi Ophthalmological Society |
Scientific functions
| 1991- 2000 | President of the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision |
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| 1991- 1998 | Speaker to the DFG core program "Hereditary Retinal Degeneration" |
| 1993- 2007 | Section Editor of "Vision Research" and "Neuro-Ophthalmology" |
| 1997- 2004 | Speaker of a center core grant "SFB 430" Editorial Board member for "Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science" |
| 1999- 2007 | Senator of the Max-Planck-Society, Germany |
| Since 1975 | Advisor for the German Research Council in several projects (SFB 73, SFB 325, SFB 200, SFB 307, SFB 539, Forschergruppen) |
| Since 2002 | Head of a Senate Commission "Medical Engineering" of the HelmholtzGemeinschaft |
| 2003- 2009 | Member of the "Wissenschaftsrat" |
| Since 2006 | Speaker of the DFG Clinical Research Group "Hereditary Retinal Degenerations" |
| Since 2011 | Speaker of the Board of the Center for Neurosensory Systems (ZfN), University of Tuebingen |
| 2015 | Coordinator of the “Nachwuchs-Akademie” on Neusosensory Systems of the German Research Council |
Curriculum Vitae
Patents
66 Patents on ophthalmological devices
Citations and h-index
For more information about the citations and h-index of see the Google Schoolar page of Eberhart Zrenner
Lectures and Interviews
Portrait Eberhart Zrenner - Hector Fellow Academy [Vimeo, February 10, 2018]
Eberhart Zrenner: "Blinde wieder sehend machen - geht das?"
a Caesar (center of advanced european studies and research) lecture, February 19, 2015
Interviews
Interview with Deutsche Welle (DW)
Prof. Eberhart Zrenner talks with "Projekt Zukunft" about new ophthalmic implants and prostheses - February 6, 2012
planet wissen
Blinde wieder sehen lassen - Interview mit Prof. Eberhart Zrenner - (in German), March, 27, 2014
Key Publications
Over 480 original peer reviewed publications - the 5 most important recent publications:
- Zrenner E., Fighting Blindness with Microelectronics. Science Transl. Med. 5, 210ps16 (2013)
Reprint | Full Text - Stingl K., Bartz-Schmidt K.U., Besch D., Braun A., Bruckmann A., Gekeler F., Greppmaier U., Hipp S., Hörtdörfer G., Kernstock C., Koitschev A., Kusnyerik A., Sachs H., Schatz A., Stingl K.T., Peters T., Wilhelm B. and Zrenner E. (2013) Artificial vision with wirelessly powered subretinal electronic implant alpha-IMS. Proc Roy Soc B - Biol Sci 280(1757):20130077 (2013)
- Zrenner E., Artificial vision: Solar cells for the blind. Nature Photonics 6:344–345 (2012).
- Zrenner E., Bartz-Schmidt KU., Benav H., Besch D., Bruckmann A., Gabel V-P., Gekeler F., Greppmaier U., Harscher A., Kibbel S., Koch J., Kusnyerik A., Peters T., Stingl K., Sachs H., Stett A., Szurman P., Wilhelm B., Wilke R. Subretinal electronic chips allow blind patients to read letters and combine them to words. Proc Roy Soc B – Biol Sci 278:1489-1497 (2011)
- Wilke R., Gabel V-P., Sachs H. Bartz-Schmidt K.U., Gekeler F., Besch D., Szurman P., Stett A., Wilhelm B., Peters T., Harscher A., Greppmaier U. Kibbel S., Benav H., Bruckmann A., Stingl K., Kusnyerik A., Zrenner E. Spatial Resolution and Perception of Patterns Mediated by a Subretinal 16-Electrode Array in Patients Blinded by Hereditary Retinal Dystrophies. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 8: 5995-6003 (2011)
Eberhart Zrenner