{"id":15781,"date":"2022-01-20T08:55:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=15781"},"modified":"2022-01-20T08:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:55:33","slug":"upstarts-lower-cost-cataract-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2022\/01\/upstarts-lower-cost-cataract-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstarts: Lower-Cost Cataract Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Close-up\n

More than 94 million people around the world \u2014 most living in low- to middle-income countries \u2014 suffer vision impairment or blindness due to cataracts, which are caused by clouding of the eye\u2019s lens. Unfortunately, the equipment needed to remove the clouded lens and insert a new one is prohibitively expensive to many people living in under-resourced settings.<\/p>\n

Kunal Parikh<\/a>, a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering\u2019s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design<\/a> and the Center for Nanomedicine at the Wilmer Eye Institute, is part of a team that is developing a low-cost hand-held device for cataract surgery that allows for fragmentation and removal of all grades of cataracts through a very small incision, giving patients in all settings access to optimal surgical outcomes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis device has potential to enable zero-energy fragmentation and removal of even advanced, mature cataracts to provide optimal outcomes for all patients in a time- and cost-efficient manner,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Parikh\u2019s team includes ophthalmologists Samuel Yiu and Nakul Shekhawat, as well as Namratha Potharaj and Joshua de Souza, CBID assistant research engineers. The technology will be developed with support from the Alliance for a Healthier World<\/a>, the Cohen Translational Engineering Fund<\/a>, and the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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