Science founder and CEO @maxhodak.bsky.social spoke with @kantrowitz.bsky.social at #WebSummit about breakthroughs in brain-computer interfaces – including Science’s PRIMA implant, which was shown in clinical trials to restore vision in patients with age-related macular degeneration

On the cover of TIME, 87-year-old Alice Charton, who regained her vision with the PRIMA chip implanted by her doctor, Prof. Eric Souied at CréteilOphtalmo.

“I’ve spent most of my life trying to solve the answer to the question: what are the ultimate brain-computer interface technologies?” Science founder and CEO @maxhodak.bsky.social talks to @time.com about our PRIMA retinal implant and the future of BCI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=onK_...

"This brought me hope,” a PRIMA patient said. “It literally changed my life.” Read more in @time.com time.com/7330887/brai...

@moorfields.bsky.social shared the story of the clinical trial of our PRIMA retinal implant, which demonstrated that the device has restored the ability to read to over 80% of participants. Read how Moorfields surgeon Mahi Muqit implanted it, how it works, and what a dramatic difference it’s made.

For more than two decades, a team of scientists, surgeons, and engineers pursued what seemed impossible: restoring functional central vision to people blinded by geographic atrophy.

Here’s a brief look at how our PRIMA retinal implant works.

“All previous attempts to provide vision with prosthetic devices resulted in basically light sensitivity, not really form vision … We are the first to provide form vision.” - Dr. Daniel Palanker, co-senior author of the @nejm.org paper on the clinical trial of our PRIMA retinal implant

“People with blindness can read again after retinal implant.” - @nature.com Nature reported on the results of a landmark clinical trial of our PRIMA retinal implant published in @nejm.org this week. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BBC News followed one of the patients at @moorfields.bsky.social who participated in our landmark clinical trial of PRIMA. She began losing her sight more than 30 years ago due to age-related macular degeneration. Now she can read again for the first time in years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-_d...

The New England Journal of Medicine (@nejm.org) today published a peer-reviewed original paper with the results of a landmark clinical trial of our PRIMA brain-computer interface (BCI) retinal implant. science.xyz/news/new-eng...