MELBOURNE (September 29, 2014) – Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), a consortium of researchers working together to develop bionic eye devices to restore a sense of vision to people with profound vision loss, today announced that it will be presenting data from a clinical trial of a prototype bionic eye device at the The Eye and the Chip World Congress on Artificial Vision taking place in Dearborn, Michigan, September 28-30.
Lauren Ayton, B. Optom, PhD, GCOT, FACO, Bionic Eye Clinical Research Coordinator at the Centre for Eye Research Australia, will be presenting at 8.30 am CT on Tuesday, September 30.
BVA will also be available to discuss this study, its research and its technologies at the AdvaMed 2014 conference in Chicago from October 6 to 8.
About Retinitis Pigmentosa and Age-Related Macular Degeneration The addressable market for the bionic eye includes subjects with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) or age-related macular degeneration (AMD) who have no remaining vision, or residual vision which is far worse than 20/200 (legal blindness). Worldwide, an estimated 1.5 million people have RP. The number of people who are legally blind due to RP is estimated to be 25,000 in the USA, 42,000 in Europe and 375,000 worldwide. The financial cost of profound vision loss has been estimated at upwards of $2.5 billion annually in Australia alone. Worldwide, between 20 and 25 million people suffer from vision loss due to AMD and of these about 2 million have vision that is considered legally blind or worse.
About Bionic Vision Australia
Bionic Vision Australia is a national consortium of researchers working together to develop bionic eye devices to restore a sense of vision to people with profound vision loss due to retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. The consortium includes researchers from the Bionics Institute, the Centre for Eye Research Australia, National ICT Australia, the University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales with additional project partners including The National Vision Research Institute, the University of Western Sydney and the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. Bionic Vision Australia is an initiative of the Australian Research Council. The project brings together a cross-disciplinary group of world-leading experts in the fields of ophthalmology, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and materials science, neuroscience, vision science, psychophysics, wireless integrated-circuit design, and surgical, preclinical and clinical practice. Further information can be found at www.bionicvision.org.au
Contacts:
Bionic Vision Australia Contact:
Dr. Julia Hill
Bionic Vision Australia
T: +61 (0)46 702 6147
hill.j[at]unimelb.edu.au
Australian Media Contact:
Dr. Douglas Pretsell
Instinctif Partners
T: +61 (0)466 925 966
douglas.pretsell[at]instinctif.com
U.S. Media Contact:
Dawn Fallon
T: +646-871-8481
dfallon[at]lazarpartners.com
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