Mission
Our Purpose Is Clear
A pivotal advancement towards a long-standing promise of science and technology:
a visual prosthesis that restores useful levels of vision to blind people
Focus
Our Expertise Areas
Project Overview
FLAIRVision combines breakthrough results from two earlier EU funded projects to create the next generation of visual prosthesis technology.
NeuraViPeR Project
Fernandez et al. (UMH) implanted a small needle-bed shaped silicon electrode array in the visual cortex of blind volunteers. Electrical microstimulation on this silicon array successfully induced the percept of simple shapes directly to the blind person, enabling object boundary detection. However, scalability was limited as most of the visual cortex lies beneath the brain surface.
HyperStim Project
We developed flexible, polymer-based electrode arrays shaped to address the entire primary visual cortex. Tests on rhesus monkeys proved multi-year durability, vastly improved tissue integration, reduced scar tissue formation, and the ability to increase resolution beyond physical electrode count using advanced stimulation patterns.
Business Development
Start-up Founded
We have established a start-up company around this concept and successfully raised seed funding.
Pending Patents
Our intellectual property portfolio includes three pending patents protecting our innovations.
Series A Goal
Our ambitious goal is to successfully raise Series A funding by the end of the project.
Business Objectives
The project's business objectives focus on advancing our company through enhanced business planning, quality systems implementation, comprehensive documentation, and intellectual property development. By combining these business milestones with our research achievements, we aim to position ourselves for successful Series A funding and commercial advancement.