Second Sight
Medical Devices & Tech  Advamed Member
12744 San Fernando Road, Building 3
Sylmar, CA 91342 USA
phone: 818-833-5000
fax: 818-833-5067
Symbol Private
Founded 0
Employees
www.2-sight.com
Research Sector Medical Devices & Tech
Summary Description
Developing implantable visual prosthetics to enable blind individuals
Management
Alfred E. Mann, Chairman; Robert Greenberg, MD, PhD, President and CEO; William Link, board member; Sam Williams, board member; Aaron Mendelsohn, board member
Keywords
retinal implants, retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, advamed

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Description
Second Sight is a privately held company founded by entrepreneurs Al Mann, Sam Williams, and others. Second Sight also receives substantial financial support from the U.S. federal government. Second Sight is developing a prosthetic retinal implant which uses digital image processing and neurostimulation to return functional vision to patients blinded from retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.
Products / Services
Second Sight is currently developing an implantable device that acquires power and data from external hardware and electrically stimulates the retina through an array of electrodes.
Technology / Differentiation
Simple arrays, used in short-term experiments, have produced formed vision in patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa. Further, research conducted by Second Sight has shown that more advanced array designs are possible, and that these arrays should significantly improve the quality of the images seen by patients.


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