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News and Trends 10 Jan 2019

This Retinal Implant Lets Visually-Impaired Patients See Patterns

An electronic chip from French company Pixium Vision, inserted behind the retina to treat age-related macular degeneration, has shown excellent results in a small clinical trial. The five patients in the feasibility study suffered from dry age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of visual impairment in people over 65 in Europe. In this incurable […]

January 10, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 4 May 2018

Bionic Implant to Restore Vision Raises Funding to Complete First Human Trial

Pixium Vision has raised €10.6M by offering new shares on Euronext Paris. The funding will be used to develop its bionic vision device further and bring it closer to a European market authorization. Pixium Vision, based in Paris, has raised €10.6M on Euronext Paris to continue the first clinical study of its PRIMA bionic vision system in […]

May 4, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

News and Trends 13 Mar 2018

French Biotech Restores Vision in Humans with Subretinal Implant

Pixium Vision has successfully restored vision in three patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using an implanted wireless device, offering significant improvements to their quality of life. Pixium Vision has restored vision in three patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), using a wireless microchip, named PRIMA, that is implanted under a patient’s retina. The technology marks a […]

March 13, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

News and Trends 26 Jan 2018

Update: Bionic Implant Restores Vision in a Human for the First Time

Update (26/01/2018): A first patient was implanted with Pixium Vision’s PRIMA bionic device. A month after implantation, the device was activated and the patient, who suffered from severe vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), reported “a first perception of light from the central zone where there was none previously,” according to principal investigator Dr. […]

January 26, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 14 Nov 2016

Meet one of the Most Impressive French Biotech Entrepreneurs

The previous executive profiles we did, namely on Joern Aldag and Philippe Dro, are hard acts to follow, but Bernard Gilly was more than up to it. Bernard has a broad set of achievements for a broad set of lessons and takeaways. Here are the major ones. You might have seen Bernard Gilly’s name in the […]

November 14, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 1 Jun 2016

Novel Bionic Vision device gains approval for clinical trials in Renowned UK Hospital

Pixium Vision will be testing its new IRIS II bionic vision system in a clinical trial. The device can mimic eye function in people affected by Retinitis pigmentosa and Macular degeneration. Based in Paris (France), Pixium Vision is developing an alternative for people who have lost their sight – a bionic vision restoration system (VRS). One […]

June 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 2 Jul 2015

Biotech & Medtech well represented at Europe’s largest technological start-up challenge

The second edition of the Hello Tomorrow Conference, a major event dedicated to disruptive technologies and science entrepreneurship, took place last week in Paris. This event gathered scientists, entrepreneurs and investors during two days to share & present the scientific innovations that will shape our future. It gathered 6 different scientific fields structures, including Healthcare and […]

July 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 6 Feb 2015

2014, the Biggest Year Ever for European Biotech IPOs

There is no need to say it: biotechnology is the latest trend. A worldwide bio-boom has shaken stock markets throughout 2014. For European start-ups, last year represented a remarkable step forward as 15 companies went public and raised €719.8M in total, as Biocom’s last report states. Let me present you a review summering the major […]

February 6, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Jan 2015

A glimpse of the future: the revolution of bionic eyes

Six months after the surgery, the first Spanish with a bionic eye has gone from the total darkness to discern shapes and distances thanks to the technology developed by Second Sight Medical Products. With the MedTech field moving forward so fast, a new generation of devices meant to restore the sense of vision is about […]

January 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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