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Clerio Vision Hires Eye Care Industry Veteran to Lead Cornea Commercialization Efforts

OCTOBER 7, 2019 – ROCHESTER, N.Y. Clerio Vision has named John Weberg as Cornea Chief Commercialization Officer to further expand the development of its cornea business, which includes continued research and development, clinical trials and commercialization efforts.  Read more

Clerio Vision Acquires Manufacturer of Extreme H2O Contact Lenses

JULY 15, 2019 – ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Clerio Vision, Inc., a developer of laser-based vision correction solutions, announced today that it has acquired Hydrogel Vision Corporation (HVC).  The transaction brings together HVC’s long-standing expertise in the manufacturing and distribution of high performance contact lenses with Clerio’s innovative product pipeline.  Read more

Nonlinear Optics: Femtosecond lasers and nonlinear optics: New approaches solve old problems in ophthalmology

 APRIL 3, 2018 – A less-invasive approach to vision correction directly changes the refractive index of ophthalmic materials via nonlinear interactions in ultrafast laser micromachining. Read more

Med device, drug delivery companies join J&J’s Toronto JLABS incubator

MAY 11, 2017 – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) said today it has added 24 companies, including those in the medical device and drug delivery fields, to its JLABS incubator facility in Toronto, Canada. Read more

Technology Review: Laser Focus World’s top 20 photonics technology picks for 2016 

DECEMBER 16, 2016 – This year, two decades of laser, optical, vibration isolation, and instrumentation development on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) bore fruit, resulting in the launch of a new form of experimental science (gravitational astronomy). As a result, this year’s Tech Review Top 20 list concludes with an especially robust selection of science topics from the past year of Laser Focus World. Read more.

Ophthalmology/Femtosecond Lasers: LIRIC: Next-generation refractive laser surgery

NOVEMBER 4, 2016 – Introduced three decades ago, laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) transformed refractive surgery. Now, a procedure called LIRIC – a promising much less invasive approach that overcomes limitations of LASIK and its ilk – portends even broader adoption and is set to usher in a new era of vision correction. Read more