José-Alain Sahel
Professor Emeritus at Sorbonne University; Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh. He founded the Institute of Vision and the IHU FOReSIGHT. A member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina, he received the Wolf Prize in Medicine. His research has led to several first-in-human trials in gene therapy, optogenetics, and prosthetic vision. He served as a visiting professor in the Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Annual Chair in 2015–2016.
