Achievements

Professor Krzysztof Palczewski, one of the founders of ICTER center of excellence, was able to restore vision in animals with the same mutations as those found in patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa and other congenital mutations leading to blindness. Blindness reversal could be achieved through the simul taneous intervention in several stages of the vision cycle.

Professor Maciej Wojtkowski, one of the founders of ICTER, has invented the advanced spectral optical coherence tomography (SOCT) scanner for retinal imaging – a device which could provide eye images of much superior quality compared to its predecessors. The SOCT scanner has revolutionised ophthal mological examinations and is currently used by ophthalmologists across the world. According to the Ministry of the Economy, the SOCT scanner is one of the three, alongside graphene and infrared photodetectors, “Polish photonic products to have achieved a world-class level and global commercial success”.

Examples of publications

Noninvasive two-photon optical biopsy of retinal fluorophores
G. Palczewska J, Boguslawsi, P. Stremplewski, L. Kornaszewski, J.Zhangb , Z.Donga, X. Liang, E. Gratton, A. Vogel, M. Wojtkowski, and K. Palczewski
PNAS, 2020, 117(36): 22532-22543
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007527117

Restoration of visual function in adult mice with an inherited retinal disease via adenine base
S. Suh, E. H. Choi, H. Leinonen, A.T. Foik, G. A. Newby, W. H. Yeh,Z. Q. Dong, P. D. Kiser, D. C. Lyon, D. R. Liu, and K. Palczewski
Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021, 5: 169–178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-020-00632-6

Computational aberration correction in spatiotemporal optical coherence (STOC) imaging
D. Borycki, E. Auksorius, P. Węgrzyn, and M. Wojtkowski
Optics Letters, 2020, 45: 1293-1296
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.384796

Professor Krzysztof Palczewski, one of the founders of ICTER center of excellence, was able to restore vision in animals with the same mutations as those found in patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa and other congenital mutations leading to blindness. Blindness reversal could be achieved through the simul taneous intervention in several stages of the vision cycle.

Professor Maciej Wojtkowski, one of the founders of ICTER, has invented the advanced spectral optical coherence tomography (SOCT) scanner for retinal imaging – a device which could provide eye images of much superior quality compared to its predecessors. The SOCT scanner has revolutionised ophthal mological examinations and is currently used by ophthalmologists across the world. According to the Ministry of the Economy, the SOCT scanner is one of the three, alongside graphene and infrared photodetectors, “Polish photonic products to have achieved a world-class level and global commercial success”.

Examples of publications

Noninvasive two-photon optical biopsy of retinal fluorophores
G. Palczewska J, Boguslawsi, P. Stremplewski, L. Kornaszewski, J.Zhangb , Z.Donga, X. Liang, E. Gratton, A. Vogel, M. Wojtkowski, and K. Palczewski
PNAS, 2020, 117(36): 22532-22543
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007527117

Restoration of visual function in adult mice with an inherited retinal disease via adenine base
S. Suh, E. H. Choi, H. Leinonen, A.T. Foik, G. A. Newby, W. H. Yeh,Z. Q. Dong, P. D. Kiser, D. C. Lyon, D. R. Liu, and K. Palczewski
Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021, 5: 169–178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-020-00632-6

Computational aberration correction in spatiotemporal optical coherence (STOC) imaging
D. Borycki, E. Auksorius, P. Węgrzyn, and M. Wojtkowski
Optics Letters, 2020, 45: 1293-1296
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.384796