Birgit Lorenz MD, PhD

Prof. Birgit Lorenz is Director and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Universitaetsklinikum Giessen and Marburg GmbH in Giessen, Germany. Attached to the department is a laboratory for Molecular Ophthalmology where a team of two fulltime scientists together with several doctoral fellows focus on retinal degenerations including the development of animal models and novel gene therapeutic approaches.

The department is a certified site for clinical studies of the European Vision Institute E.V.I.. Professor Lorenz is professor of neuroophthalmology and ophthalmic genetics. She qualified at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet of Munich and was a visiting scientist at the Institute of Ophthalmology, London, of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, and of the Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. She is fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology.

She has been founding president of the European Paediatric Ophthalmological Society EPOS and served as president from 2002 to 2010. She is scientific advisory board member of Pro Retina Deutschland and of the Allianz Chronischer Seltener Erkrankungen ACHSE.