MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION - Medical Device Daily

More documents

Recommendations

Info

128 MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 investors. We are contemplating another funding round in 4Q of this year.” Moving forward, he envisions the application of iLogic to other lung diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and interstitial disease. “Our current focus is lung cancer because it’s the largest cancer killer,” he said. “Long term survival is just 15%. Our opportunity is to be able to diagnose and facilitate treatment in the earliest stages when you still have an opportunity to dramatically increase survival rates.” (This story originally appeared in the Nov. 3, 2009, edition of Medical Device Daily) To subscribe, please call MEDICAL DEVICE DAILY Customer Service at (800) 888-3912; outside the U.S. and Canada, call (404) 262-5547. Copyright © 2010 AHC Media LLC. Reproduction is strictly prohibited.
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 SynergEyes to launch ClearKone lenses geared toward keratoconus By OMAR FORD Medical Device Daily Staff Writer Keratoconus patients, those suffering with a cone shaped corneas, often have difficulty with wearing contacts. Trying to find the right kind of lens that will fit is often difficult and frustrating for some patients. But a small West Coast-based med-tech company is offering a contact lens that is promising to give these patients some relief. SynergEyes (Carlsbad, California) reported that it has introduced a new advanced lens design for keratoconus patients in the form of ClearKone. It’s what the company calls “a revolutionary contact lens” that takes advantage of the best features of the hybrid platform, providing superior visual acuity, centration, stability, and all-day comfort. SynergEyes lenses are the only FDA-cleared hybrid contact lenses specifically designed for keratoconus vision correction, the company said. The lenses are available in 130 locations in the U.S. and there are plans to add 250 more starting in September, Kellie Kaseburg, VP of Global Marketing for SynergEyes told Medical Device Daily. SynergEyes recognized the need to develop a hybrid contact lens design that could fit a much broader spectrum of keratoconus patients, including oval cones, highly advanced central cones, decentered cones and depending on the specifics of the case, globus keratoconus and pellucid marginal degeneration,” Kaseburg said. “The ClearKone lens does just that and will allow many more keratoconus patients to experience the benefits of hybrid technology.” The ClearKone lens uses hybrid technology to give keratoconus patients visual clarity of a high-oxygen rigid gas permeable contact lens and the all-day comfort and convenience of a soft lens. What makes the ClearKone lens different from other SynergEyes lenses is the design of the lens itself and the technique used to fit it, the company said. The patent-pending design is optimized to vault the predominant irregularities of the keratoconic cornea, thus effectively restoring vision to a vast majority of irregular cornea patients, without compromising comfort or eye health, even in difficult cases. “In the past there just weren’t a lot of great options for keratoconus patients,” Kaseburg said. “Some solutions had patients wearing two contacts in one eye and you can imagine how problematic that would be. To design a lens like this . . . that’s always been a goal of the company.” SynergEyes received a huge boost to its coffers earlier this year that partly went into funding research and development of the ClearKone lenses. Back in February the company closed in on $13.3 million Series C financing. De Novo Ventures (Palo Alto, California) led this round as well as SynergEyes’ Series B round. Bio-Star Private Equity Fund 129 (Petoskey, Michigan) joined Series A and B investors Alloy Ventures (Palo Alto, California), Delphi Ventures (Menlo Park, California), InnoCal Venture Capital (Costa Mesa, California) and Windward Ventures (San Diego) as new investors. The company also launched a hybrid contact lens designed for those who need further vision correction after undergoing refractive vision surgery (MDD, March 3, 2008). SynergEyes PS (post-surgical) is also designed for people who have experienced some type of corneal trauma or suffer from certain degenerative vision conditions. The contact lenses combine two materials — a rigid gas permeable center with a soft lens outer skirt. The hybrid design bonds a hard and soft contact lens together, resulting in a vision correction option the company said provides “crisp, clear vision for surgically altered corneas in a comfortable, healthy contact lens.” SynergEyes was founded in 2001 and is mostly funded through venture capital firms. It offers three other lenses with FDA approval that include SynergEyes A, a lens for naturally occurring ametropia, targeting patients with astigmatism, current gas permeable lens wearers and patients demanding optimized vision; the SynergEyes KC for keratoconus; and the SynergEyes Multifocal lens for presbyopia. (This story originally appeared in the July 23, 2009, edition of Medical Device Daily). To subscribe, please call MEDICAL DEVICE DAILY Customer Service at (800) 888-3912; outside the U.S. and Canada, call (404) 262-5547. Copyright © 2010 AHC Media LLC. Reproduction is strictly prohibited.
Page 1 and 2:
MEDICAL DEVICE DAILY MEDICAL DEVIC
Page 3 and 4:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 1 AB
Page 5 and 6:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 3 Ta
Page 7 and 8:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 5 In
Page 9 and 10:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 A ti
Page 11 and 12:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 9 do
Page 13 and 14:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Hear
Page 15 and 16:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 ARS
Page 17 and 18:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 15 b
Page 19 and 20:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 17 T
Page 21 and 22:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Avan
Page 23 and 24:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Body
Page 25 and 26:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Came
Page 27 and 28:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 25 t
Page 29 and 30:
Page 31 and 32:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 29 2
Page 33 and 34:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Coru
Page 35 and 36:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 33 s
Page 37 and 38:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Surg
Page 39 and 40:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Chee
Page 41 and 42:
Page 43 and 44:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Cohe
Page 45 and 46:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 FDA
Page 47 and 48:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 45 c
Page 49 and 50:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Enfa
Page 51 and 52:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Drex
Page 53 and 54:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Ekos
Page 55 and 56:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 53 I
Page 57 and 58:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 55 w
Page 59 and 60:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Exmo
Page 61 and 62:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Endo
Page 63 and 64:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Broa
Page 65 and 66:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Heal
Page 67 and 68:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Stud
Page 69 and 70:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 ExAb
Page 71 and 72:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 69 J
Page 73 and 74:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 71 c
Page 75 and 76:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Hybr
Page 77 and 78:
MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Tru-
Page 79 and 80: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 77 L
Page 81 and 82: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Lumi
Page 83 and 84: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 81 t
Page 85 and 86: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 MTI
Page 87 and 88: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Micr
Page 89 and 90: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Nano
Page 91 and 92: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 89 s
Page 93 and 94: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 91 A
Page 95 and 96: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 93 m
Page 97 and 98: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 NiTi
Page 99 and 100: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 NMT
Page 101 and 102: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Tran
Page 103 and 104: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 New
Page 105 and 106: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Paci
Page 107 and 108: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 105
Page 111 and 112: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Non-
Page 113 and 114: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Pros
Page 117 and 118: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Sanu
Page 119 and 120: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Clos
Page 121 and 122: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Once
Page 123 and 124: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 SFC
Page 125 and 126: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Mayo
Page 127 and 128: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 C-Pu
Page 129: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 supe
Page 135 and 136: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Ther
Page 137 and 138: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Gold
Page 139 and 140: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Nano
Page 143 and 144: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 Pilo
Page 145 and 146: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 US E
Page 151 and 152: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 A ti
Page 153 and 154: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 VisE
Page 157: MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION 2010 155
show all

MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION - Medical Device Daily

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?