Second Sight Medical Products Announces Year Four NIH Funding Of Its Orion Study

Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | July 18, 2022 06:11am

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:EYES) (the “Company” or “Second Sight”), a leading developer of implantable visual prostheses that are intended to create an artificial form of useful vision for blind individuals, today announced that the Company received notice from the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) of the release of year four funding for its Early Feasibility Clinical Trial of a Visual Cortical Prosthesis (the “Orion Trial”), grant 5UH3NS103442. The NIH released $1.1 million of the $6.4 million planned five-year grant. The Company uses the funds primarily to pay UCLA and Baylor College of Medicine to conduct the Orion Trial. The funding supports continuation of this important research and testing of the Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis.

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