Second Sight Shows The Way

Second Sight secured FDA approval for the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System in 2013 and followed it with an IPO, giving the company the capital necessary to expand the commercial launch of its system to restore the vision of patients blinded by retinitis pigmentosa while also developing a new system that might restore the vision of anyone who has lost their sight to disease. An interview with CEO Robert Greenberg, MD.

In recent years, mounting pressures from regulators, insurers, and public investors have kept medtech off stride. The sector has steadily lost ground – and venture dollars – to the IPO-rich biopharmaceutical or the hype-heavy digital health sectors. But the past year has been increasingly kind to medtech, giving the industry hope as companies find success on public markets and forge warmer relations with payors and providers.

Few, if any, ventures represent the surge better than Second Sight Medical Products Inc. In the past two years,...

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