Millions of people around the world are affected by keratoconus, a progressive eye disorder where the cornea thins and bulges outwards. In severe cases, a corneal transplant may be the only treatment option; however, there is a limited supply of donor tissue.<\/p>\n
The Augel project is set to change this. ETH Pioneer Fellow Shuo Li is developing a soft hydrogel implant to stabilise the cornea and improve vision. The implant can be manufactured entirely in the lab, is cost-effective and can be integrated with existing laser surgery methods.<\/p>\n
Initial tests in the laboratory and in animal models have yielded promising results. The next step is to initiate the first human clinical study of the method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of people around the world are affected by keratoconus, a progressive eye disorder where the cornea thins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[5977,15457,6243,1202,51],"class_list":["post-85060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-d-mavt","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-homehero","tag-news","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116758374159886157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}