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Start-Up News March 2007

InnFocus and Transcend Medical advance glaucoma surgery, and new orthodontics company OrthoAccel cuts orthodontia treatment times in half.

Incubator Innovia LLC, whose Miami headquarters puts it in close proximity to one of the leading eye centers in the U.S., the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, recently spun off InnFocus LLC (Miami, FL) to solve some persistent challenges in glaucoma and other ophthalmic diseases.

Glaucoma affects approximately 1% to 2% of the U.S. population and is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the U.S. The disease is characterized by fluid build-up in the...

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