Six German patients test wireless artificial retina
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
After 12 years of research and E17.5m ($26.8m) funding, Germany's artificial retina programme came of age this month when devices developed by local researchers were implanted in six long-term blind individuals. The EPIRET3 artificial implants, developed by Professor Wilfried Mokwa and a team from RWTH Aachen/the Duisburg Fraunhofer institute, are claimed to be the world's first such wireless implants.