Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. mult. Eberhart Zrenner

Insti­tute for Ophthalmic Research of the Univer­sity Hospi­tal, Eberhard Karls Univer­sität Tübingen

Eberhart Zrenner is Senior Profes­sor of Ophthal­mol­ogy at the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integra­tive Neuro­science and Found­ing Direc­tor of the Insti­tute for Ophthalmic Research of the Univer­sity of Tübingen.

He is an inter­na­tion­ally recog­nized special­ist for degen­er­a­tive diseases of the retina, especially in the field of cause research and therapy devel­op­ment. He has been partic­u­larly involved in the devel­op­ment of electronic subreti­nal retinal implants to restore vision in the blind. He is also signif­i­cantly involved in the devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of the world's first ocular gene replace­ment therapy for color blind­ness and the first gene therapy devel­op­ments in Germany for hered­i­tary retinal degenerations.

For his work, he was granted the Ludwig von Sallmann Prize und den Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopold­ina) and the Heidel­berg Academy of Sciences and Human­i­ties. He was speaker of the SFB 430, until 2009 member of the Science Council and Health Research Council, until 2005 senator and until 2020 member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Society.