Professor Brad Nelson at the Institue of Robotics and Intelligent Systems operates an Octomag - an instrument whose eight electromagnetic coils permit maneuvering micro-robots through the eye to deliver drugs to the retina.

Former Advisory Board

  • Sebastian Bonhoeffer (Integrative Biology), 2008-2010
  • Sir Richard Brook (Materials Science), 2002-2005 (Head of Advisory Board)
  • Gerd Folkers (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), 2002-2010
  • Raghavendra Gadagkar (Ecological Sciences), 2007-2010
  • Eva Jablonka (Epigenetics), 2005-2009
  • Barbara König (Zoology), 2002-2010
  • Olaf Kübler (Image Science, former President of ETH Zurich), 2006-2010
    (Director 2006-2010)
  • Richard Morris (Neuroscience), 2006-2010
  • Gerhard Neuweiler (Neurobiology), 2002-2008
  • Helga Nowotny (Social Studies of Science), 2002-2009 (Director 2002-2004)
  • Hans-Uwe Simon (Pharmacology), 2002-2008
  • Dame Marilyn Strathern (Social Anthropology), 2002-2005
  • Erös Szathmary (Evolutionary Biology), 2002-2007
  • Hans Weder (Theology, former President of the University of Zurich), 2009-2010
  • Indra Willms-Hoff (Medicine), 2002-2010