Botond Roska (born 1969) is a Hungarian medical doctor and biomedical researcher.
After a hand injury ended his cello career, he decided to study medicine and mathematics instead.
[6] Much of Roska's research is on visual perception, including its principles and the pathways of information processing.
[2] In 2020 he won, as third time to hungarians, the Körber European Science Prize for his research on a gene therapy that could potentially be used to reactivate the retinae of individuals who are blind.
[5] In 2024 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine jointly with José-Alain Sahel for sight-saving and vision restoration to blind people using optogenetics.