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Director at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research
Marius Ueffing
- Professor, Dr. rer. nat.
- Head of the Division of Experimental Ophthalmology
- Director of the Institute for Ophthalmic Research
Deputy Director at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research

Thomas Euler
- Professor, Dr. rer. nat.
- Head of the Lab for Ophthalmic Research
Full Professors at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research

Karl Ulrich Bartz-Schmidt
- Professor of Ophthalmology, MD
- Director of the University Eye Hospital

- Professor Dr. rer. nat.
- Head of the Neural Data Science for Vision Research Lab
- Prof., D.Phil.
- Helmut Ecker Endowed Professor of AMD
- Head of the Lab for Molecular mechanisms driving age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
- Senior Professor, Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c.
- Head of the Section of Neurobiology of the Eye
- Professor, Dr. rer. nat.
- Head of the Section of Ocular Neurodegeneration
- Professor, Dr. rer. nat.
- Head of the Lab for Molecular Genetics of Sensory Systems
- Professor, Dr. med., Dr. h.c. mult., Professor of Pathophysiology of Vision
- Senior Professor of the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
- Founding Director of the Institute for Opthalmic Research
Senior Investigators at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Group leader Medical Proteome Center
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Deputy Head Neurobiology of the Eye

- Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil.
- Head of the Lab for translational research on retinal disorders

Katrin Franke
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Junior Research Group leader at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
- PD Dr. rer. nat.
- Deputy Head of Section of Experimental Vitreoretinal Surgery
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Deputy Head of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory

- Dr. rer. nat.
- Deputy Head of the Section of Ocular Neurodegeneration
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
- Group leader “Cell Death Mechanisms Group”
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Deputy Head of the Ophthalmic Research Group

- Dr. rer. nat.
- Head of the Neuroprotection & Drug Delivery Lab
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Junior Research Group leader "High-Resolution Retinal Imaging and Testing"

- Dr. sc. hum.
- Junior Research Group leader "Applied Vision Research"

- Dr. rer. nat., Neurobiophysicist, Biodesigner
- Director ZEISS Vision Science Lab
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Head Research Management