Frank G. Holz is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Bonn, Germany. His main research interests include the pathogenesis, structural and functional biomarkers and new therapies for macular and retinal diseases. His major clinical interest is medical and surgical retina. He also founded the GRADE Reading Center as well as the Medical Imaging Center Bonn (MIB), with a focus on innovative retinal imaging technologies and image analysis strategies.
Professor Holz was a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), trained at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the University of Chicago/Pritzker School of Medicine, and passed a fellowhip at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, with Prof. Alan C. Bird. He is a co-founder of the Priority Program AMD of the German Research Council (DFG), founded the GRADE Reading Center Bonn to perform digital image analysis in multicentre clinical natural history and interventional trials, and is the coordinator of the MACUSTAR study on development of structural, functional and PRO endpoints in intermediate AMD funded by the IMI2 EU program.
Professor Holz is a Board Member of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG), and of the Club Jules Gonin, Member of the European Academy of Ophthalmology (EAO), the Macula Society, the Gass Club, Editor-in-Chief of Der Ophthalmologe, and serves as reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals. He has received numerous awards including the Pro Retina Macular Degeneration Research Award, the Leonhard-Klein Award for Ocular Surgery, the Alcon Research Institute (ARI) Award, the Senior Achievement Award of the AAO and the Jules Gonin Award. He published more than 800 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.