PD Dr. Dr. Bettina studied medicine and molecular medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany, received her M.D. at the Department of Ophthalmology, FAU (summa cum laude) in 2011, and her PhD in molecular medicine at the Institute of Anatomy, FAU (magna cum laude) in 2020. She has worked as resident (2012-2018) and consultant (since 2018) at the Department of Ophthalmology, FAU, and habilitated at the Faculty of Medicine, FAU, in 2021.
PD Dr. Dr. Hohberger has been working as ophthalmologist of the Erlangen Glaucoma Registry since 09/2017, as vice speaker of the AG young DOG (Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft) since 09/2019, speaker of the AG young DOG since 09/2022 and as speaker of the AG DOG-glaucoma since 09/2022. She is the recipients of numerous awards including graduation awards by the Scientific Foundation for Human Medicine at the FAU and the Hermann-Wacker Foundation (both 2012); multiple DOG Poster of the Day Awards: Measurements of recovery time after 25 Hz temporal contrast adaptation as new tool for monitoring glaucoma progress (2015), MIGS – Therapeutic success of combined Xen Gel Stent implantation with cataract surgery (2017), Erlangen Glaucoma Registry: longtime observation of intraocular pressure in normal subjects (2018), and MIGS – Therapeutic success of Xen45 gel stent implantation with mitomycin C in combination with cataract surgery (2019); Julius-Springer-Award of Ophthalmology (2017): Measurements of recovery time after 25 Hz temporal contrast adaptation as new tool for monitoring glaucoma progress; DOG Glaucoma Research Award founded by Santen GmbH (2018): Agonistic Autoantibodies to the β2-Adrenergic Receptor Involved in the Pathogenesis of Open-Angle Glaucoma; Research Award of the „Bundesverband Auge“ (2019); nomination for the Galenus-von-Pergamon-Preis, category: basic science: agonistic ß2-adrenergic autoantibodies: a novel target in glaucoma therapy (2020); Xtreme Research Award (2022), a nomination of the Paper of the Year of the Biophysical Society (2022), nomination for the Galenus-von-Pergamon-Preis, category: basic science: glaucoma: the window for Long-COVID: and is FAU Innovator 2022.