Balázs Rózsa

Balázs Rózsa built his first special laser scanning microscope two decades ago using discarded parts. Not long after, he founded Femtonics Research and Development Ltd., a company whose equipment can study brain neuron networks at the cellular level. The products of the company are used by universities like MIT, Yale, and Columbia, as well as by Botond Roska, a Wolf Prize winner renowned for his work on curing blindness. A few years ago, their collaboration led to the establishment of the BrainVisionCenter under the direction of Balázs Rózsa. The mission of the research institute is to develop new therapeutic options for visually impaired patients and to create a brain-computer interface that could improve the quality of life for those suffering from central nervous system diseases.

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