Wolfgang Berger is a Full Professor and the Director of the Institute of Medical Molecular Genetics, University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland. He obtained a Ph.D. in Life Sciences (1989) from the Science Faculty, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany; the ‘Venia Legendi Humangenetik’ (1999) from the Medical Faculty (Charité), Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany; and holds the title of ‘Specialist for Medical Genetic Analysis FAMH’ (April 2005). He became full Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich in 2002. Before this appointment, he was affiliated as an Associate Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany. His research interests include the genetic basis of monogenic and complex human diseases with a focus on retinal degenerations and dysfunctions (retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, night blindness, exudative vitreoretinopathies, Norrie disease, and Wagner disease), Molecular pathophysiology of retinal diseases, signaling pathways in retinal angiogenesis and generation and characterization of mouse models for monogenic retinal degenerations.