Second Sight Bags French Funding For Bionic Eye

Second Sight Medical announced this week that it landed a financial contract with the French Ministry of Health to provide funding for the 1st wave of patients in the country to receive treatment with the Argus II vision system.

The French government will pay for 36 patients to receive the technology, which is comprised of an eyeglass-mounted camera and an electrical stimulator implanted in the eye. The device converts images into a series of electrical pulses that are transmitted wirelessly to electrodes in the retina to simulate vision in patients with retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that causes incurable blindness.

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