ESF funding: visual rehabilitation and virtual reality

Michael Reber, an INSERM researcher in the Psychiatry team, has secured €1.2 million in funding from the European Science Foundation under the Fight Kids Cancer programme for a European study involving seven countries (France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Spain).

The aim of this study is to assess the effect of a visual rehabilitation programme on visual perception in individuals with hemianopia (loss of half the visual field) following a paediatric brain tumour. This project is being conducted in collaboration with Prof. Entz-Werlé (Paediatric Neuro-Oncology Department, Strasbourg University Hospitals — HUS) and Prof. Sauer (Ophthalmology Department — HUS).