In Brief: LaserSight
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
LaserSight: Orlando, Florida-based firm obtains exclusive license from the University of Southern California to commercialize a device designed to improve and further automate photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) with any excimer laser. Company officials say that use of the device would obviate the need for use of a blade to remove the epithelial layer of the cornea, the procedure currently performed as a preliminary step in PRK treatment. Peter McDonnell, MD, professor of Ophthalmology at USC, developed the device with eye experts at the Los Angeles-based Doheny Eye Institute. LaserSight's development-stage Auto-PRK system will incorporate McDonnell's device...
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