Alabama based researcher to make contact lens able to deliver drugs into eyes
An Auburn University based researcher have claimed to create a contact lens material to be helpful in getting drugs into the eye in sufficient amounts.
This Alabama based researcher Mark Byrne points out that the eye is well adapted at keeping foreign objects out.The researcher says that the contact-lens material he has developed can hold high concentrations of drugs, and release them more slowly.
He has revealed that the idea is to design the molecular structure of the lens material to mimic tissue-receptor sites that the drug will target within the body. For commercializing the idea, Byrne has set up a company called OcuMedic.
The company is already developing anti-fungal contact lenses for treating eye infections in horses.
Source: Newspost Online
Filed under Contact Lens, Eye Care Products
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