Shares of Second Sight Medical Products (NASDAQ: EYES) are moving higher on news that the implantable visual prosthetics company has successfully implanted and activated a wireless visual cortical stimulator in a human subject. The company said the achievement provides the initial human proof of concept for the ongoing development of the company’s Orion™ I Visual Cortical Prosthesis (Orion I). “Based on these results, stimulation of the visual cortex has the potential to restore useful vision to the blind, which is important for independence and improving quality of life,” Dr. Nader Pouratian, the UCLA neurosurgeon who performed the surgery, stated in the news release.
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About Second Sight
Second Sight’s mission is to develop, manufacture and market innovative implantable visual prosthetics to enable blind individuals to achieve greater independence. Second Sight has developed and now manufactures and markets the Argus® II Retinal Prosthesis System. Enrollment has been completed in a feasibility trial to test the safety and utility of the Argus II in individuals with Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Second Sight is also developing the Orion™ I Visual Cortical Prosthesis to restore some vision to individuals who are blind due to causes other than preventable or treatable conditions. U.S. Headquarters are in Sylmar, California and European Headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.secondsight.com
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