RESEE (190138640)

  https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/190138640

  Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

  A Revolutionary Artificial Cornea and Surgical Procedure

  Strategic Digital and Health Technologies (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01-01)

  polymer sciences  ·  ophthalmology  ·  surgical procedures  ·  optics  ·  pathology

  2022-02-01 Start Date (YY-MM-DD)

  2024-08-31 End Date (YY-MM-DD)

  € 3,484,432

  Description

The CorNeat KPro is a patent pending fully artificial cornea (no donor required) which provides a life-long solution for corneal blindness, pathology, and injury. Its novel approach, technology and surgical procedure bio-mechanically integrate artificial optics within resident ocular tissue. The CorNeat KPro wide aperture acrylic lens, identical in optical quality to the native non-astigmatic cornea, is surrounded by a non-degradable synthetic polymer skirt-like scaffold that mimics the native Extra-Cellular-Matrix and stimulates cellular growth and infiltration. The CorNeat KPro integrates underneath the conjunctiva, a site rich with fibroblasts, which heals vigorously. As a result, the CorNeat KPro skirt assimilates within the eyewall tissue providing a no follow-up life-long solution. CorNeat KPro and its implant procedure is 50% cheaper than traditional corneal implant hence an affordable remedy for millions of people with cornea-related visual impairments.

  Complicit Organisations

1 Israeli organisation participates in RESEE.