Second
Sight Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: EYES) ("Second Sight" or "the
Company"), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual
prosthetics to provide some useful vision to blind patients, today
mourns the passing of Founder Alfred E. Mann.
“We are all deeply saddened by the loss of our founder, mentor and
friend, Al Mann, a pioneering leader whose contributions and vision
profoundly impacted the lives of so many and whose legacy will impact
many more. Everyone he came in contact with was enriched and inspired by
him. Personally, I am eternally grateful for Al’s generous guidance and
support these last 16 years. At Second Sight, we all feel deeply honored
to have worked alongside of and known such a remarkable person. The
world is a little darker without his presence, but his spirit will live
on in every blind person who is brought back into the light by our
products,” said Dr. Robert Greenberg, Chairman of Second Sight.
During his 70 year career, Alfred Mann founded 17 companies. Three
companies became public and ten were acquired at an overall total of
almost $8 billion. Hundreds of thousands of people have benefitted from
his technologies and he created thousands of jobs. The medical miracles
produced by these companies included infusion and insulin pumps,
pacemakers, cochlear implants, spinal cord stimulators and inhalable
insulin, to name a few. He will be missed by all.
About Second Sight
Second Sight's mission is to develop, manufacture and market innovative
implantable visual prosthetics to enable blind individuals to achieve
greater independence. Second Sight has developed, and manufactures, the
Argus® II Retinal Prosthesis intended to provide some useful vision to
individuals with outer-retinal degenerations such as Retinitis
Pigmentosa (RP). Second Sight is also developing the Orion™ I
Visual Cortical Prosthesis to restore some vision to individuals who are
blind due to causes other than those currently treated by Argus II or
other therapies. U.S. Headquarters are in Sylmar, CA, and European
Headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.secondsight.com.
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