Visual prostheses: learned lessons and future perspectives

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Lecture infos

School: XLIII Annual School 2024 - Neurotechnologies to understand and restore the nervous system

Date: 19.09.2024 - 16:00

Speaker

Ghezzi G.

Hôp. Jules-Gonin

Diego Ghezzi received his M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering (2004) and Ph.D. in Bioengineering (2008) from Politecnico di Milano. From 2008 to 2013, he completed his postdoctoral training at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova at the Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, where he was promoted to Researcher in 2013. In 2015, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Bioengineering with the Medtronic Chair in Neuroengineering at the Center for Neuroprosthetics and Institute of Bioengineering of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Since 2023, he is director of ophthalmic technologies and innovations at the Hôpital ophtalmique Jules-Gonin in Lausanne. The Ophthalmic and neural technologies laboratory is a multidisciplinary environment promoting cross-fertilisation among diverse expertise. It brings materials science, engineering, computer science, life science, and medicine together by the convergence of physicists, engineers, neuroscientists, and ophthalmologists cooperating to accomplish innovative projects. Its mission is developing innovative ophthalmic and neural technologies to better understand diseases and, eventually, improve the quality of life of people with ophthalmic and neural disorders. Ultimately, it aims at translating research findings into clinical practice.