You investigate inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the eye on the molecular level. To find ways of preventing and curing diseases that result in blindness is a core research goal in molecular ophthalmology. You learn a lot about current research and spend time in the lab to get first-hand experience how progress is made in this field. But you also learn a lot about molecular disease research in general: The ingenious design of the eye as a closed system makes it a unique “model organism” within our body. Understanding the molecular mechanisms ruling diseases of the eye teaches you a lot about disease mechanisms that set inflammatory and degenerative diseases in other parts of the human body in motion.
Learn to think BIG while zooming in on microscopic details.
