!!José-Alain Sahel - Biology
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José-Alain Sahel, MD, trained at Paris University Medical School, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, and Harvard University. He is the Endowed Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine/UPMC. He founded in 2008 the Vision Institute (Sorbonne Université-Inserm-CNRS) in Paris, France, and the Vision Institute at UPMC, which opened in May 2023, two large interdisciplinary research centers. \\
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His work has contributed to the understanding and preventing vision loss from photoreceptor cell degeneration. He conducted dozens of clinical trials on retinal conditions, including first in human trials of artificial retina, gene therapy, optogenetics. He co-authored over 750 peer-reviewed articles and 90 patents. He has co-founded companies developing innovative therapies for vision restoration. \\
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He is a member of the Académie des Sciences-Institut de France, the Académie des Technologies, the Association of American Physicians, the American Ophthalmology Society, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He holds an Honoris Causa Doctorate from the University of Geneva and held the Chaire d’Innovation Technologique Liliane Bettencourt at Collège de France (2015-2016). He is an Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur Officer and Commander of the National Order of Merit (France). He received, among other awards, the Alcon Research Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research, the Grand Prix NRJ-Neurosciences-Institut de France, the 2015 Foundation Fighting Blindness Llura Liggett Gund Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2021 Breakthrough in the Life Sciences - Falling Walls Foundation, Berlin, Germany, the 2022 Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation Award for Translational Neuroscience, the 2023 International Prize for Translational Neuroscience from the Max Planck Society, Germany (with Botond Roska) and the 2024 Wolf Prize in Medicine (with Botond Roska). President Macron appointed him to the Conseil Présidentiel de la Science in Dec. 2023.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit jsahel}][{ALLOW upload jsahel}][{ALLOW comment All}]