Medication Dispensing Intraocular Lens (mdIOL) for cataract surgery
Year
2012
Project team
Paula Hammond and Kenneth Mandell with Myoung-Hwan Park and Joseph Rizzo
Direct release of medication
Cataract surgery patients need to administer medication, using eye drops, for several weeks after a new lens is implanted. This project is developing a technology to release drugs directly from the implanted lens using a new nano-layer technology, thus eliminating the need for eye drops.
LayerBio
The technology from this project was spun out into a startup company, LayerBio.