Developments in Electronic Visual Prosthetics
Last revised: Dec. 12 2016
Active Projects
| Consortium Name | Home Institution | Commercial Partner | City | Country | PI(s) | Device Name(s) | Contact Info | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARP (Artificial Retina Project, USA) | USC Dept. Ophthalmology | Second Sight Medical Products LLC | Sylmar, CA | USA | M. Humayun, J. Weiland | Argus II, Argus I | M. Humayun | artificialretina.energy.gov |
| BRIP (Boston Retinal Implant Project) | Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School | Bionic Eye Technologies Inc. | Boston, MA | USA | J. Rizzo, J. Wyatt (deceased), W. A. Drohan | Boston Retinal Prosthesis | Joseph Rizzo | bostonretinalimplant.org |
| BVA (Bionic Vision Australia) | Bionics Insitute, Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Data61 | Bionic Vision Technologies | Melbourne | Australia | R. Shepherd, C. Williams, P. Allen, R. Guymer, P. Blamey, A. Burkitt, N. Barnes | 44ch Fully-Implantable Suprachoroidal, 24ch Prototype Suprachoroidal | Rob Shepherd, Chris Williams, Penny Allen, Robyn Guymer, Tony Burkitt | bionicvision.org.au |
| BVA (Bionic Vision Australia) | University of NSW | Bionic Vision Technologies | Sydney | Australia | G. Suaning, N. Lovell, A. Burkitt | Phoenix 99 Suprachoroidal | Gregg Suaning, Nigel Lovell, Tony Burkitt | bionicvision.org.au |
| BVA (Bionic Vision Australia) | University of Melbourne | Bionic Vision Technologies and iBionics | Melbourne | Australia | S. Prawer, H. Meffin, A. Burkitt | Diamond-based Epiretinal | Steven Prawer, Hamish Meffin, Tony Burkitt | bionicvision.org.au ibionics.ca |
| CORTIVIS (Cortical Visual Neuro-prosthesis for the Blind) | Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain | Biomedical Technologies, SL | Elche | Spain | E. Fernandez | CORTIVIS | Eduardo Fernandez | cortivis.umh.es nbio.umh.es |
| C-Sight (Chinese Project for Sight) | People's Hospital-Peking University Medical School | - | Beijing | China | Q. Ren, X. Li | C-Sight | Qiushi Ren | en.coe.pku.edu.cn |
| ICVP (Intracortical Visual Prosthesis) | Illinois Institute of Technology | MicroProbes, Sigenics | Chicago, IL | USA | P. Troyk | ICVP | Philip Troyk | neural.iit.edu/research/icvp |
| InAuKa | University of Bremen | - | Bremen | Germany | A. Kreiter, U. Ernst, W. Lang | - none - (Basic Research) | A. Kreiter | isee.uni-bremen.de |
| I-See (Creative Unit I-See) | University of Bremen | - | Bremen | Germany | W. Lang, S. Paul, A. Kreiter, K. Pawelzik | - none - (Basic Research) | David Rotermund | isee.uni-bremen.de |
| MGH Thalamic Visual Prosthesis | Massachusetts General hospital | Bionic Eye Technologies Inc. | Boston, MA | USA | J. Pezaris | MGH Thalamic Visual Prosthesis | John Pezaris | sight2blind.org |
| MVG (Monash Vision Group Consortium) | Monash University | Grey Innovations, MiniFAB | Melbourne | Australia | A. Lowery, J. Rosenfeld, M. Rosa, R. Rajan | Gennaris bionic vision system. Direct-to-brain bionic eye | Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Arthur Lowery , Jeanette Pritchard | monash.edu/bioniceye |
| NanoRetina | Rainbow Medical | NanoRetina | Herzliya | Israel | E. Cohen-Arazi, Y. Milstain | NanoRetina | Y. Milstain? | nano-retina.com |
| OUReP | Okayama University | MINORI INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | Okayama | Japan | T. Matsuo | OUReP | Toshihiko Matsuo | en.coe.pku.edu.cn/ |
| Pixium | Pixium | Pixium | Paris | France | R. Hornig | PRIMA, IRIS (Intelligent Retinal Implant System) V1, IRIS V2 (150 trodes) | pixium-vision.com | pixium-vision.com/en |
| Polystim-Cortivision | Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Polystim Neurotechnologies Laboratory | Cortivision | Montreal | Canada | M. Sawan | PolySTIM | Mohamad Sawan | polystim.polymtl.ca polystim.org |
| QuantumRetina | Tel Aviv University | - | Tel Aviv | Israel | Y. Hanein, U. Banin | QuantumRetina | Yael Hanein | nano.tau.ac.il/hanein/ |
| SNU Artificial Retina Project | Seoul National University, Nano Bioelectronics and Systems Research Center | - | Seoul | Republic of Korea | J.-M. Seo, S. J. Kim | Seoul Artificial Retina | Jong-Mo Seo | helios.snu.ac.kr |
| The vOICe | Metamodal BV | Metamodal BV | Eindhoven | Netherlands | P. Meijer | The vOICe | Peter Meijer | seeingwithsound.com |
| TSIC, Taiwan Sub-retinal Implant Consortium | National Chiao Tung Univerity, Biomimetic Systems Research Center | A-Neuron Electronic Corp. | Hsinchu City | Taiwan | C.-Y. Wu | AmazingVision | Chung-Yu (Peter) Wu | betrc.nctu.edu.tw |
| Tuebingen Retinal Implant, previously SUBRET, previously part of the German Retina Implant Consortium | Univesity of Tuebingen | Retina Implant GmbH | Tuebingen | Germany | E. Zrenner | Alpha IMS, Alpha AMS | Eberhart Zrenner | www.retina-implant.de |
| UIEA (Utah Intracortical Electrode Array) | University of Utah | Blackrock | Salt Lake City, UT | USA | R. Normann | Utah Cortical Prosthesis, Utah Intracortical Electrode Array (UIEA) | Richard Normann | bioen.utah.edu/cni |
| VISNE: VISual neuroprosthesis based on adaptive Neuron-silicon interfaces | Complutense University of Madrid, Neurorobotics Research Group | Nerve Biomed S.L. | Madrid | Spain | F. Panetsos | VISNE | Fivos Panetsos | ucm.es/grupos/grupo/120 |
| VPP (Visual Prosthesis Project) | Osaka Univ. Med. School / NIDEK | NIDEK Co. Ltd. | Osaka / Gamagori | Japan | T. Fujikado, Y. Tano (deceased), NIDEK | STS retinal prosthesis, OUReP, AV-DONE, VPP, biohybrid | Takashi Fujikado | nidek-intl.com/visual_prosthesis |
Inactive Projects
| Consortium Name | Home Institution | Commercial Partner | City | Country | PI(s) | Device Name(s) | Contact Info | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASR (Artificial Silicon Retina) | Loyola University of Chicago, School of Medicine | Optobionics | Chicago, IL | USA | A. Chow, V. Chow | ASR - Artificial Silicon Retina | - | - |
| AV-DONE project | Osaka Univ. Med. School / NIDEK | NIDEK Co. Ltd. | Osaka/Gamagori | Japan | M. Kamei, Y. Tano (deceased), NIDEK | AV-DONE, | None | - |
| Biohybrid Retinal Implant? | Tokyo Institute of Technology | None | Tokyo | Japan | T. Yagi | Biohybrid Retinal Implant | T. Yagi | io.mei.titech.ac.jp/research/retina/index.html |
| EPIRET, previously part of the German Retina Implant Consortium | Institut für Neuroinformatik der Universität Bonn | Epi-Ret GmbH | Bonn | Germany | R. Eckmiller | EPIRET 3, EPIRET 2, EPIRET (1) | - | www.nero.uni-bonn.de/projekte/ri/ri-index-en.htm www.nero.uni-bonn.de/projekte/ri/phase1/ri-phase1-en.html |
| German Retina Implant Consortium | University of Tuebingen, Pathophysiology of Vision Lab | Retina Implant GmbH, Epi-Ret GmbH | Tuebingen | Germany | R. Eckmiller, E. Zrenner | - | R. Eckmiller | - |
| IRPG (Intraocular Retinal Prosthesis Group) | Wilmer Eye Institute | - | Baltimore, MD | USA | M. Humayun, J. Weiland | MARC1, MARC2, MARC3 (multiunit artificial retina chipset), IRP (intraocular retinal prosthesis), Model 1 Retinal Stimulator | M. Humayun | - |
| NPP (Neural Prosthesis Program) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | - | Bethesda, MD | USA | E.M. Schmidt, T. Hambrecht | "hat-pin" | - | - |
| OptiVip | Louvain University | - | Brussels | Belgium | Delbeke, Veraart | OptiVip, MiVip | Jean Delbeke | www.gren.ucl.ac.be/Projets/optivip.html |
| RTNC (Research Triangle, North Carolina) | Duke Eye Center, North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina | - | Raleigh, NC | USA | E. de Juan, W. Lu, R. Propst, H. Phillips, M. Humayun | - | M. Humayun | - |
Further Information
Starting list originally from S.J. Garg and J. Federman, Optogenetics, visual prosthesis and electrostimulation for retinal dystrophies. Curr. Opin. Ophthalmol. 24: 407-414 (2013).
Revised and curated by Dr. Daniel Rathbun.