We re-engineer a window on the world

International Centre for Translational Eye Research - ICTER

Meet our team
Part of the Institute of Physical Chemistry

News & Events

24.04.2025

Molecular messenger of sight. Some of RBP3 secrets have been exposed
20.03.2025

The flicker reveals the mechanisms of vision. Groundbreaking f-ORG technique in the diagnosis of retinal diseases
20.03.2025

A revolution in retinal imaging. STOC-T technique allows us to look deeper than ever before
19.03.2025

Prof. Maciej Wojtkowski wins MAESTRO 16 grant!
21.02.2025

TRIO-VI CoE Project: Kick-Off
17.02.2025

United in Excellence – Kick-Off Meeting of Poland’s New Teaming Projects
05.12.2024

How do we use STOC-T to assess ocular microcirculation? – new paper in Neurophotonics by 3 ICTER research groups
18.11.2024

Strategic guidance and future directions: ICTER’s 2024 International Scientific Committee Meeting  
18.11.2024

ICTER Centre of Scientific Excellence: agreement signed with the European Commission
23.10.2024

Key to the invisible world found. ICTER scientists decipher two-photon vision
02.10.2024

The technology that conquered rapid eye movements
25.06.2024

A new way to monitor eye microcirculation. Multiwavelength laser Doppler holography (MLDH) in time-frequency optical tomography OCT (STOC-T)
24.06.2024

ICTER is changing into a Centre of Excellence! “Teaming for Excellence” competition within Horizon Europe resolved
06.06.2024

The f-ORG technique will detect the smallest changes in human photoreceptors – new paper in Optics Letters
20.05.2024

ICTER at the Ursynów Science Festival in Warsaw on May 23 – invitation to optical and eye model design workshops
24.04.2024

European Funds Open Days at ICTER – we invite you to an educational workshop for youth and adults “Sight – the most important of the senses” on May 10, 2024
02.04.2024

Stargardt’s disease has many names. Different varieties require different approaches – research from ICTER published in PNAS Journal
01.03.2024

ICTER is a laureate of the “The International Research Agendas” competition financed by the European Funds for Smart Economy Programme
28.12.2023

“Inventing a technology is one thing but putting it into practice is quite another. ICTER allows both worlds to meet,” an interview with Dr. Bartosz Sikorski, an ophthalmologist and long-time ICTER collaborator
13.12.2023

“Optoretinography is the future of ophthalmology, and the knowledge from ICTER is utilized by top specialists” – interview with Prof. Robert Zawadzki from UC Davis

Research projects

18.12.2024

A new approach for gene delivery into retinal bipolar cells
17.12.2024

All fiber imaging probes
17.12.2024

Anterior segment structural and functional imaging
17.12.2024

Bridging biology and optics
17.12.2024

Searching new biomarkers of Diabetic retinopathy (DR)
16.12.2024

Chimeric Rhodopsin as a novel optogenetic tool
16.12.2024

The role of the basal forebrain in visual processing
16.12.2024

A new approach of vision restoration based on modified Rabies virus tracing technique
16.12.2024

Ultrahigh resolution OCT
16.12.2024

Scanning OCT system for animal model study
16.12.2024

Surgery guidance and therapy administration
15.12.2024

Development of new experimental approaches and computational tools for the analysis of single-cell sequencing data
15.12.2024

High-throughput single-cell sequencing in eye research (completed project)
31.10.2023

IDoc Group achievements in 3 years perspective
28.08.2023

Diffuse optics and interferometry
16.08.2023

A new paper by IDoc group researchers, international scientists and a spin-off company published in “Biomedical Optics Express”
22.06.2023

Droplet microfluidics systems
20.06.2023

Flicker Optoretinography (f-ORG)
15.06.2023

Two-Photon Excited-Fluorescence Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (TPEF-SLO)
09.06.2023

Two-photon optical biopsy of the retina

ICTER Research Groups

Physical Optics and Biophotonics

The research in our group can be seen as a perfect interplay between physics, biology and chemistry. We are focusing on developing imaging techniques and using them in many biological and chemical systems.

Integrated Structural Biology

Research aims to elucidate the mechanisms of vision, particularly proteins of the phototransduction pathway and the visual cycle, at an atomic and molecular level.

Image-guided Devices for Ophthalmic Care

We seek to research novel techniques and develop instrumentation to address unanswered questions in vision science and unmet needs in ophthalmology and optometry.

Ophthalmic Biology Laboratory

We use electrophysiology for investigating the system of local and distant communication between populations of neurons responsible for information processing.

Computational Genomics Group

We are interested in creating new approaches for comprehensive inference of developmental trajectories and delineation of cell atlases from single-cell data, understanding the role of cell-to-cell signaling and biological pathways in lineage commitment and transitions between cellular states.