José-Alain Sahel
José-Alain Sahel · Science & Medicine
Ophthalmologist advancing treatments for blindness, including optogenetic vision restoration
1955, Tlemcen, Algeria
Algeria · France · United States
José-Alain Sahel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Ophthalmologist advancing treatments for blindness, including optogenetic vision restoration
Sahel, a French ophthalmologist born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Tlemcen, Algeria, advances treatments for blindness, including optogenetic therapy that partially restored vision to a blind patient. He founded the Institut de la Vision in Paris and chairs ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh, receiving the 2024 Wolf Prize in Medicine.
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Ophthalmologist advancing treatments for blindness, including optogenetic vision restoration
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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