BHVI

Presbyopia occurs when the eye’s natural crystalline lens hardens with age, gradually losing its flexibility and ability to change shape for focusing close objects (its accommodation). This adversely affects most nearpoint tasks . Most people experience presbyopia by the age of 45, requiring glasses or contact lenses to see clearly and read.

Accommodating Gel is a radical new vision correction technology, potentially capable of providing total visual rehabilitation to the over 1 billion people worldwide with presbyopia.

The Accommodating Gel project team is developing a gel-lens system that will replace the old presbyopic lens. The lens is removed during a simple procedure and replaced by the polymer gel. Existing technologies don’t come close to restoring the eye’s natural ability to focus.

The Accommodating Gel technology is now being developed by Adventus Technology, Inc.

Investigators

Project Leader

Dr Paul Erickson

Key Personnel

Dr Jason Watling

Professor Arthur Ho

Professor Jean-Marie Parel

Collaborators

The Accommodating Gel  collaboration, coordinated through the Vision CRC, has brought together world experts in ophthalmology, optics, accommodation, polymer chemistry and clinical research.

To learn more about the Accommodating Gel  Project click here.