Masters of The Universe

The day concluded with the Masters of the Universe panel where AcuFocus executive chairman Jim Mazzo led a discussion between Link and executives from Abbott Medical Optics, Alcon, Allergan, Bausch & Lomb, Carl Zeiss Meditec, and Johnson & Johnson Vision Care. Mazzo introduced the panel – and the notion of industry consolidation – with a…

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2016 Promises to Disrupt Dry Eye

Drugs & Devices for Dry Eye - Ophthalmology Innovation Summit 2015

This year promises to deliver disruption to the dry eye disease market as companies work to roll out new drugs, devices, and diagnostics. Shire may deliver the biggest success. The company is close to bringing a second therapeutic to the market to treat dry eye conditions, as lifitegrast is currently awaiting US regulatory approval. If…

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Gobiquity

With only one in five children who have risk factors for amblyopia getting tested, Gobiquity Mobile Health is continuing to develop its smartphone-based early screening technology to break down those barriers, CEO Andrew Burns said at OIS@AAO 2015. Gobiquity’s GoCheck Kids app is the first to perform photo-screening and provide real-time analysis to show if…

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Amblyotech

Amblyotech CEO Joseph Koziak describes the company as a “hybrid” life science and software company that is refining its tablet-based treatment platform for amblyopia in adolescents and adults. Its Dig Rush is the first therapeutic video game that treats amblyopia, Koziak said at OIS@AAO 2015. It’s an alternative to patching, which can cost up to…

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DigiSight Technologies

DigiSight Technologies announced at OIS@AAO 2015 that it was launching its Paxos product suite that combines its mobile vision assessment tool, ophthalmic imaging system and analytics software into a vertically integrated data management system. “When you put these devices into patients’ homes, for the first time you can access the vast majority of patient data…

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Digital Ophthalmology Sector Overview

Participant: Michelle Snyder Michelle is currently the CMO at Welltok leading all corporate and product marketing efforts and is an investment and operational advisor to InterWest Partners. View Full Profile

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Masters of the Universe

Participants: Jim Mazzo James V. Mazzo is Global President for Carl Zeiss Meditec’s Strategic Business Unit Ophthalmic Devices, which includes Ophthalmic Diagnostics, Surgical Ophthalmology and Refractive Lasers. View Full Profile Jeff George Jeff was appointed to lead Alcon in May 2014. As the global leader in eye care, Alcon provides innovative products that enhance quality…

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LacriScience

LacriScience is in late stage development of its LacriPen, a portable instrument using gold plated single-use sensors that measures osmolarity to +/- 2 mOSM/L and proteins. By coating the gold film with a specific antibody, such as Adenovirus, Herpes Zoster, Herpes Simplex, or any biomaker, it can be precisely identified or quantified instantly. www.lacripen.com Participant:…

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RPS Diagnostics

RPS is a diagnostic company concentrating on inflammatory and infectious disease diagnoses; its flagship product, the InflammaDry, has been designed for in-office diagnosis of inflammatory conditions present in a patient’s eye. The company has devised two platforms: one, an amino-based platform using antibodies to detect disorders. The second, novel platform is a molecular test that…

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A Rundown of a Record-setting OIS

OIS Podcast

[creativ_pullleft colour=”light-gray” colour_custom=”” text=”Episode 066″] The Ophthalmology Innovation Summit hit it big in Las Vegas prior to the industry’s American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting. With close to 1,000 registered attendees, OIS@AAO brought innovators together with both public and private investors as well as corpo-rate leaders of our dynamic sector. OIS Podcast walks through the…

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LacriScience

The company’s LacriPen is a handheld, portable, diagnostic tool that measures osmolarity to within 2 mOsml. It uses a technique called surface plasma residence, which calculates minute changes in the refractive index on a very thin gold film. The reflectivity minimum line produces moves as a measure of osmolarity; when in use the device is…

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