Cynthia Toth, MD received the highly regarded Hermann Wacker Prize of the Club Jules Gonin at the XXXIst Annual Meeting of Club Jules Gonin held July 11-14, 2018. She joins one other Duke prize recipient, Robert Machemer, MD who served as the Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology 1978-1992.
The Hermann Wacker Prize was founded 46 years ago by the German Industrialist Hermann Wacker, Director of the Hermann Wacker Werke KG in Munich, with the aim of supporting the fight against blindness due to retinal detachment. To honour the donor as well as the founder of retinal surgery, the title of the prize is “The Hermann Wacker Prize of the Club Jules Gonin.” The prize is offered every two years to one or several researchers for an experimental or clinical piece of work, which provides an important new contribution to the understanding and,/or treatment of retinal, choroidal and vitreous diseases.
Club Jules Gonin was created in honor of Jules Gonin, MD, the pioneer in the field of retinal detachment surgery. He almost single handedly changed the landscape of retinal detachment surgery forever.