Juliette Wohlschlegel, appointed group leader at the Institut de la Vision

Specialized in neuroscience, Juliette Wohlschlegel obtained her PhD in 2020 at the Institut de la Vision in Isabelle Audo's Genetics team. During her thesis, she developed an expertise in the field of retinal organoids, applied to the modeling of rare diseases. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), in the laboratory of Thomas Reh, where she received the BrightFocus Foundation fellowship. Her work highlighted new strategies to stimulate the regeneration of the human retina and to reprogram glial cells into neurons, paving the way for future therapeutic advances. 

Her appointment as a "Junior group leader" at the Institut de la Vision follows an international call for application and a selection by an independent scientific committee. From September 2026 and for 3 years, Juliette Wohlschlegel will benefit from dedicated funding to develop her own line of research. She will work closely with Olivier Goureau and his team, a synergy enabling to pool equipment and skills, as well as to strengthen the institute's expertise in promising fields of retinal regeneration and retinal organoids.