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Samsara Vision Advances Tiny ‘Telescope’ For Macular Degeneration As It Ponders IPO Options

 
• By Reed Miller

The CONCERTO trial will evaluate the company’s SING IMT, an upgrade of its 12-year-old WA IMT device, in up to 100 people in the US with age-related macular degeneration.

Samsara Vision's SING IMT implanted by Stanislao Rizzo in Rome.
Samsara Vision's SING IMT Smaller-Incision New-Generation Implantable Miniature Telescope Implanted by Stanislao Rizzo and colleagues in Rome. • Source: Samsara Vision

Samsara Vision, the New Jersey-based ophthalmology surgery company known as VisionCare until 2020, is sponsoring the US trial of its SING IMT minimally invasive system to treat people with late-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

SING IMT, which stands for “smaller-incision new-generation implantable miniature telescope,” is an “ultra-precision” wide-angle micro-optics device implanted during cataract surgery, the most common type of eye surgery, to improve central...

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