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Hungarian Scientist Wins €1 Million Prize For Groundbreaking Research That Could Eventually Restore Sight in Blindness
Hungarian scientist Botond Roska wins the Körber Prize for European Science after his gene-therapy treatment cures degenerative blindness.
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This year’s Körber Prize for European Science has gone to a Hungarian scientist whose revolutionary gene-editing treatment could cure a type of blindness that affects around one in 4,000 children.
Cell biologist Botond Roska’s work against a kind of degenerative eye disease is currently going through clinical trials.