5 Topic Commentaries

Smart Lens, Sharp Signal

Smart Lens, Sharp Signal

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  Chi Hwan Lee, PhD

  Biomedical engineering; wearable ophthalmic devices (smart soft contact lenses)

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  Purdue University

  To address this unmet need, we developed a unique class of smart soft contact lenses built upon various commercial brands of soft contact lenses for continuous 24-hour IOP monitoring and potentially treatment, even during sleep at home.

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  Babak Parviz, PhD

  Electrical engineering; bioelectronics; smart contact lens displays

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  University of Washington

  This is the first time we have been able to wirelessly power and control the display in a live eye.

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  William Maisel, MD, MPH

  Medical devices regulation; cardiology

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  U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

  The Triggerfish gives the clinician 24-hour continuous monitoring of changes in IOP patterns that otherwise could not be obtained,

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  Joseph Ciolino, MD

  Cornea/external disease; ocular drug delivery via contact lenses

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  Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology; Massachusetts Eye and Ear

  In general, eye drops are an inefficient method of drug delivery that has notoriously poor patient adherence. This contact lens design can potentially be used as a treatment for glaucoma and as a platform for other ocular drug delivery applications,

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  Daniel S. Kohane, MD, PhD

  Biomaterials and drug delivery; translational ophthalmic therapeutics

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  Harvard Medical School; Boston Children’s Hospital

  The lens we have developed is capable of delivering large amounts of drug at substantially constant rates over weeks to months,

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