Affiliation: Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4020 Linz, Austria, University Clinic for Ophthalmology and Optometry, Center for Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Ahmad Salti is a research group leader at the University Clinic for Ophthalmology and Optometry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Dr. Salti worked on several neuroscientific topics during his research career, including stem cell biology, Parkinson's disease, brain development, drug addiction, and recently Ophthalmology. He acquired his PhD in Neuroscience at the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria. He then conducted his research at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and Innsbruck Medical University, Austria. The research of Dr. Salti mainly focuses on harnessing the potential of patient-specific stem cells for biomedical applications such as disease modeling and cell therapy. His current research in Ophthalmology aims to use patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell-derived 3D retinal organoids as human in vitro models for studying retinal diseases on the one hand and the other hand to investigate the efficiency of organic retinal prostheses as in vivo retinal implants.