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Articles from 2012

Retinal Microchip Restores Vision in Retinitis Pigmentosa [9 May - external link]
Medscape Writer Troy Brown discusses the first successful implants in Hong Kong and the UK and quotes Tim Jackson throughout this piece.

Digital Bionic Eye Lets Blind Man See Again [3 May - external link]
Health and Science Correspondent Thomas Moore features the first two implants that occurred in the UK on Sky News.

Two blind British men have electronic retinas fitted [3 May - external link]
BBC Medical correspondent Fergus Walsh discusses the results of the first two patients involved in the UK clinical trial. Professor Robert MacLaren and Tim Jackson are featured as the leading investigators of the UK trial.

'I've dreamed in colour for the first time in 20 years': Blind British [3 May - external link]
Dailymail Reporter Jenny Hope features the dramatic story of Chris James, one of the first patients in the UK to be receive Retina Implant’s device. In this article James noted that after receiving the implant he dreamt in color after decades of total darkness.

Eye implants restore vision in two British patients [3 May - external link]
CBSNews.com includes information about the success of the first two patients implanted in the UK clinical trial.

Tomorrow's Medicine [May - external link]
Professor Eberhart Zrenner and patient Miikka Terho are featured in the section in Scientific American devoted to the Bionic Eye in the article looking at the medicine of tomorrow.

Retinal Implant Brings Eyesight To The Blind [11 February - external link]
Forbes.com Blogger Alex Knapp writes about Retina Implant’s technology, the results of the first human clinical trial and the promise of the technology.

How Would You Like Your Bionic Vision? [13 January - external link]
IEEE Spectrum included information about Retina Implant in a feature discussing the retinal implant market, including commentary from Professor Eberhart Zrenner.

Articles from 2011

Electric Eye: Retina Implant Research Expands in Europe, Seeks FDA Approval in U.S. [12 December - external link]
Scientific American Technology Reporter Larry Greenemeier writes on Retina Implant’s second human clinical trial, featuring commentary from Professor Zrenner as well as from Dr. Julia Haller of Wills Eye in Philadelphia, Pa.

The next step in bionics [9 October - external link]
CBS Sunday Morning features Retina Implant’s microchip technology in a piece about the future of bionic body parts.

Subretinal electronic chip shows encouraging results, further improvements [1 October - external link]
Ocular Surgery News features Professor Eberhart Zrenner discussing Retina Implant’s technology and results of the company’s first human clinical trial.

Retinal implants restore useful vision [October - external link]
Clinical Services Journal discusses the benefits of placing retinal implants below the retina and comments on Retina Implant AG’s successful trial data.

An Implantable Bionic Eye [April - external pdf file, 1.4Mb]
The April issue of Popular Science features Retina Implant’s technology in its annual “How It Works” feature.

Opticianonline.net wrote about te subretinal microchip placement [380kb]

Eyewiretoday.com wrote about Professor Eberhart Zrenner´s honour at EURETINA [242kb]

Retina Implant AG Founder Professor Eberhart Zrenner and Research Team Honoured at EURETINA [1.2Mb]

A French article about Retina Implants [3.5Mb]

Medical Device And Diagnostic Industry article about Retina Implants [4.5Mb]

Articles from 2010

Over 350 press articles about the results in the Proceedings of the Royal Society available here.

CNN: Pioneering surgery helping blind to see, 4.11.2010 [external link]
Article about the study results published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

Financial Times: Retina Implant hopes to launch sight chip, 4.11.2010 [80 KB]
Article about the study results published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
Cure may have been found for blindness disease, Oct. 2010 [82 KB]
Article from myanmar News.net about retina implant.
AAO: Camera Chip Provides Sight in Retinitis Pigmentosa, Oct 2010 [40 KB]
Article about the presented new clinical trial results at the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting.
Ophthalmology Times, Sep 2010 [75 KB]
Benefits of subretinal implants revealed.

OSN Supersite, Aug 2010 [80 KB]
Subretinal implant provides stable percepts synchronized with eye movement.
Eurotimes, Issue 7/8 2010 [2 MB]
News from ARVO 2010 summarizes the presentation of retina implants at the yearly meeting in Florida.
The Nation, Thailand, 5.8.2010 [224 KB]
It's hope at first sight: HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn visits the eye hospital in Tübingen especially to receive information about the retina Implant project.
Retina Today News Feature, July/August 2010 [52 KB]
Retinal Prosthesis Technology: Clinical trials demonstrate that both epiretinal and subretinal approaches provide visual function to blind patients.
Business Wire, July 2010
Retina Implant’s Chairman Professor Eberhart Zrenner Rewarded for his Outstanding Contribution to Research into Retinal Degenerative Diseases
Medical Device Technology Alert, April 2010 [334 KB]
Clinical Trials in commercializing Retinal Implants

Articles from 2009

Der Spiegel: Revisiting the World - Digitally, 23.12.2009 [2790 KB]
By Philip Bethge und Gerald Traufetter; english translation of the german article

Eurotimes: Artificial vision moving from science fiction to science fact, 12.10.2009 [642.66 KB]
Competition heats up in quest to deliver first commercially available retinal chip

Eurotimes 07/2008 "Overcoming the fragmented research space in ophthalmology", 07.08.2009 [2.32 MB]
Ophthalmologists have reached a defining moment in the history of their discipline not only because there are so many new possibilities for diagnistics and therapy offered by new discoveries in mocecular cell biology, bur also because the world's ageing population means that there will be a greater number of people than ever before with sight-threatening diseases.
retinosis.org "Ensayos Clínicos con Prótesis", 02.06.2009 [26.63 KB]
ENSAYO CLINICO DE PRÓTESIS SUBRETINIANAS REALIZADO EN ALEMANIA presentado por el Dr. Eberhart Zrenner, profesor del Departamento de Patofisiología de la Visión de la Universidad de Tuebingen, Alemania (Retina Implant Pilot Trial to Evaluate Safety & Efficacy in Blind Patients Having Degenerated Photo-Receptors)

Articles from 2008

Engineering Design, 11.12.2008 [974.2 KB]
Eye implant
Applied Clinical Trials "Retina Implant AG", 20.08.2008 [1.3 MB]
For this medical device start-uo, its first foray into EDC began with a six to nine month evaluation period of about 12 EDC products.
EETimes "ICs poised to get under your Skin", 22.04.2008 [130.33 KB]
korean
ONS Super Site "Retina/Vitreous" , 21.02.2008 [1.23 MB]
Chinese article
Albrecht Rothermel featured in EE Times, 11.02.2008 [773.76 KB]
ICs poised to get under you skin
zillion business review, Edition 23, 01.02.2008 [1.1 MB]
Restoring partial vision to completely blind patients
Punjab Newsline, 18.01.2008 [727.6 KB]
German Bionic eye brings the ray of hope for blinds
ONS SuperSite, 17.01.2008 [1.43 MB]
Subretinal implant shows promise to restore vision in some patients
Motor for Innovations, 11.01.2008 [670.49 KB]
Strategies of the Cluster MicroTEC Südwest improve the competitiveness of industries

Articles from 2007

Uitzicht Retina Nederland 2007 "Retina-implantaat", 20.10.2007 [444.01 KB]
Na da gebruikelijke voorstellingsronde is het woord aan mw. Dr. Anna Bruckmann van de universiteitsoogkliniek te Tuebingen in Duitsland...
Legal structure change, 01.10.2007 [54.74 KB]
Retina Implant assumes new role as corporation
Partially Restored Vision (Digital Planet, BBC World Service, 23.07.2007), 23.07.2007 [4.65 MB]
Interview with Dr. Walter-G. Wrobel, CEO of Retina Implant GmbH.
Subretinal implant shows promise to restore vision in some patients, 01.07.2007 [396.84 KB]
An external energy supply increases the prosthesis capacity to provide accurate neuronal stimulation
The Economist Technology Quarterly "Seeing the light", 01.06.2007 [1.5 MB]
Visual implants: An electronic retinal implant uses technology borrowed from digital cameras to restore some sight to the blind
Visual implants - Seeing the light (Economist, 08.05.2007), 08.05.2007 [64.1 KB]
These days, using silicon chips to allow machines to see is commonplace. So why not use them to restore sight to the blind? That is the reasoning behind a study being carried out in the eye hospitals of Tübingen and Regensburg universities, in Germany.
I saw the light, says blind man with bionic eye (Sunday Telegraph, 24.04.2007), 24.04.2007 [37 KB]
For Daniel Brueck, it truly looked like the light at the end of the tunnel. First his eyes could distinguish brightness from darkness, and then, slowly the shapes of objects in a room.
Thai article (bioon, 26.03.2007), 26.03.2007 [352.9 KB]
Chip przywraca wzrok (Racjonalista, 26.03.2007), 26.03.2007 [93.79 KB]
Pierwsze testy z użyciem światłoczułych chipow wszczepionych do oka wykazują, że urządzenia takie mogą przywrocić wzrok niektorym niewidomym pacjentom. To kolejny krok w wysoce konkurencyjnym wyścigu do wynalezienia bionicznego oka, ktore rozwiąże problem ślepoty.
Részlegesen visszanyert látás az új műretinával (origio egészség, 23.03.2007), 23.03.2007 [216.13 KB]
Napjainkban világszerte számos kutatás zajlik a vak emberek látá-sának visszaállítására. Német kutatók most új megközelítéssel próbálkoztak egy szembe ültethető, látássegítő eszköz kifejlesztése érdekében - írja a Nature című folyóirat.
Electronic light-sensitive chip may restore vision in some blind patients (Yahoo India, 22.03.2007), 22.03.2007 [34.77 KB]
German researchers have found that an electronically boosted light-sensitive chip has the potential to restore sight to some blind patients. Eberhart Zrenner, executive director of the Eye Hospital at the University of Tübingen, announced at a recent press conference the findings of the test, the first of its kind.
A chip in the eye boosts sight (nature.com, 21.03.2007), 21.03.2007 [64.38 KB]
The first test of an electrically boosted light-sensitive electronic chip implanted into the eye shows that it can restore sight to some blind patients. This is another step in what is now a highly competitive - and commercial - global race to help the blind see again.

Articles from 2006

The emerging nanomedicine landscape (Nature biotechnology), 01.10.2006 [304.76 KB]
A global survey of companies pursuing nanomedicine indicates that nanotechnology is taking root in the drug and medical device industry.
Financial Times Deutschland "Der schwere Weg von der Idee bis zu Therapie"", 14.07.2006 [12.06 KB]
Zehn Jahre lang mussten sich Eberhart Zrenner und sein Mitarbeiter gedulden - vor wenigen Monaten konnte der Leiter der Tübinger Universitäts-Augenklinik den heiß ersehnten Etappensieg seines Teams vermelden:
A Vision for the Blind (Science, 26May06), 26.05.2006 [377.08 KB]
Stimulating single electrodes produced pea-sized spots of light an arm´s length away. Switching on all 16 electrodes creadted a square; flipping on four in a row lit up a line the size of a large match, Zrenner and his colleagues reported at ARVO.
Science "A Vision for The Blind", 26.05.2006 [377.08 KB]
Early-stage artificial "eyes" are competing in the clinic, giving blind volunteers a glimpse of the future
Germany`s Retina Implant shows the visually impaired a ray of light, 16.03.2006 [63.36 KB]
Patients who were previously blind have been able to identify electrical stimulus patterns composed of identical dots; said Walter G. Wrobel, chairman of the Retina Implant´s management board.

Articles from 2004 and older

Bionity "Rund eine Million Euro von Privatinvestoren für Medizintechnik-Unternehmen Retina Implant", 20.05.2004 [12.85 KB]
Die Retina Implant AG entwickelt einen elektronischen Chip, der ins Auge unter die Netzhaut implantiert wird und dadurch vielen Blinden einen Teil ihres Sehvermögens zurückgeben wird.
The Wallstreet Journal "Artificial Vision Offers Ray of Hope for Blind", 27.08.2003 [207.1 KB]
Connie Schoeman began losing her vision in 1957 and is now blind. But since doctors placed a thin strip of electronics onto the back of her right eye in March, she has seen spots of light and bright shapes.
Science "Will Retinal Implants Restore Vision?", 08.02.2002 [449.67 KB]
A number of research groups are developing electrical implants that can be attached directly to the retina in an attempt to restore vision to patients suffering from retinal degeneration. However, despite promising results in animal experiments, there are still several major obstacles to overcome before retinal prostheses can be used clinically.

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