The 2026 Heidelberg Helmholtz Days

Welcome to all colleagues attending The 2026 Heidelberg Helmholtz Days November 27–28, 2026.

Website now available in German

Our website has been translated into German.

In Lab News, Jul 25, 2026

Visiting Research Professors

Awards to two Visiting Research Professors

In Lab News, Jun 30, 2026

DOC 2026

Heidelberg Prizewinners at DOC 2026

In Lab News, Jun 21, 2026

Recommendations on IOL exchange.

Guidelines for Intraocular Lens Exchange Due to Material Changes

In Publications, Jun 11, 2026

Injector Force

A laboratory analysis of the variation in resistance force during intraocular lenses injection by...

In Research, May 11, 2026

AH Cytokine and Chemokine changes after FLACS

A study of postoperative inflammation after femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery showed th...

In Research, Jan 30, 2026

2025: 57+ publications

2025:57+ publications from the Heidelberg University Hospital Eye Department and the David J Appl...

In Publications, Dec 31, 2025

2025 - Good News!

Good news to end 2025: the first African country to eliminate river blindness: the Republic of Ni...

In Lab News, Dec 31, 2025

Refining mini-monovision

In a laboratory study, both Acunex Quantum and RayOne EMV are suitable for mini-monovision. ### H...

In Research, Dec 24, 2025

Artiplus and IPCL

Laboratory study of Ophtec’s Artisan versus the Care Group’s IPCL

In Research, Oct 20, 2025

Vivity and PureSee

EDoF lenses allow cataract and refractive-lens-exchange patients to have improved intermediate-di...

In Research, Jul 24, 2025

Safety in IOL exchange

We set out to study IOL exchange in patients who had IOL complications but otherwise had healthy ...

In Research, Jun 30, 2025

Simulating IOL vision before implanting a lens

IOL simulators, where the patient can experience vision through IOLs prior to IOL implantation, a...

In Research, Jun 25, 2025

Exact and Symfony

We compared two hybrid refractive-diffractive IOLs with enhanced depth of focus.

In Research, May 20, 2025

New Certificate

New certificate ISO9001:2015

In Lab News, Mar 07, 2025

DGII 2025 prizewinning papers

Five prizewinning papers from Heidelberg at this year’s DGII meeting.

In Lab News, Feb 15, 2025

Welcome

The David J Apple® Laboratory continues the pioneering work of Dr. David Apple which focuses on intraocular lens research and improving cataract surgery techniques.

Two Apple cores

The core of the laboratory is the people who do the research. While David Apple was alive, he called his researchers the Apple Korps. Now one can talk of a New Generation of Auffarth-Apple Korps.