Heidelberg Engineering Xtreme Research Award
With the Xtreme Research Award, Heidelberg Engineering recognizes aspiring researchers and honors their outstanding projects and advancements to ophthalmic research.
Over the years, the novel research approaches of the award winners resulted in a better understanding of complex problems in ophthalmology – and beyond – or were translated into tangible benefits for ophthalmic patient care.
Heidelberg Engineering Xtreme Research Award
Award Winners 2014 – 2023
2024
Dr. Christian Burri
University of Bern
Towards holographic OCT for clinical applications
Real-Time Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Guided Dosimetry in Selective Retina Therapy (SRT)
2023
Dr. Hendrik Spahr
Dr. Dierck Hillmann
University of Lübeck
Towards holographic OCT for clinical applications
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2022
PD Dr. Dr. Bettina Hohberger
University of Erlangen
Behind the Eye: OCT-A in Long COVID
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2021
Patrick Sibony, MD1
Randy Kardon, MD, PhD2
Mark Kupersmith, MD3
Mona Garvin, PhD4
Jui-Kai Wang, PhD5
1SUNY Stony Brook
2The University of Iowa
3New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
4, 5The University of Iowa
Ocular Imaging for Raised Optic Disc Evaluation
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2020
John Nolan, PhD
Nutrition Research Centre Ireland
Macular Pigment Assessment with SPECTRALIS
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2019
Chantal Dysli, MD1
Lydia Sauer, MD2
1Inselspital University Hospital Bern
2Moran Eye Center of the University of Utah
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Ophthalmoscopy (FLIO)
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2018
Osamah Saeedi, MD
University of Maryland
Beyond Angiography: In Vivo Imaging of Ocular Erythrocytes
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2017
Massimo Fazio, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
In-vivo Quantification of Biomechanics and Morphometry across Ocular Disease
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2016
Alex Huang, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Aqueous Angiography
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2015
Prof. Dr. Frank Holz
Bonn University
Using Light to Probe the Retina: Intrinsic Autofluorescence Imaging
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2014
Nimesh Patel, PhD
University of Houston, College of Optometry
NASA’s Ocular Health Study
Xtreme Research Lecture Award
Award Winners 2011 – 2013
2013
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Guthoff
Dr. Marina Hovakimyan
Sabine Peschel
Prof. Dr. Oliver Stachs
Dr. Andrey Zhivov
Small Nerves – Large Consequences
2012
C. Ross Ethier
Michael J. Girard
Jean Martial Mari
Nicholas G. Strouthidis
Edward White
Lyn Zimmo
3D Deformation Mapping of the Human Optic Nerve Head In Vivo
2011
Dr. med. Dominik Fischer
Prof. Dr. med. Florian Gekeler
Dr. med. Andreas Schatz
Dr. med. Gabriel Willmann
THAO Project
