Following on from the recent news about a lady in her 80's who has dry Age Related Macular degeneration who has just been given a bionic eye implant as part of a Europe wide clinical trial developed by Pixium Vision in France along with Consultants from Moorfields Eye Hospital here in the UK.

Connect Radio's Toby Davey chats with Mahi Muqit, the Eye Consultant from Moorfields Eye Hospital, who implanted the bionic chip into 'Bionic Nana' as her Grandchildren call her to find out more about the technology behind the clinical medical trial of this bionic eye chip implant.

Mahi began by giving Toby a bit of background to the clinical medical trial and how the technology works.

Mahi then talked about how in the future the bionic eye chip implant could be very beneficial to other people like Bionic Nana who have dry Age Related Macular Degeneration which is currently not able to be treated with injections like wet AMD.  

 

Mahi ended by stating that the technology and the clinical medical trial is very much in the early stages however, there is hope for the future.

More details about the clinical medical bionic eye chip implant can be found by visiting the following article on Moorfields website -

https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/news/revolutionary-bionic-chip-inserted-moorfields-patient-s-blind-eye

 

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