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Jerome A. Legerton

OD, MS, MBA, FAAO & Director at Innovega

Practiced for 26 years prior to launching a successful career in contact lens development and commercialization; 52 issued U.S. patents, co-inventor of Paragon CRT® contact lenses, the market leader for overnight corneal reshaping. Co-founder and former CTO and EVP of SynergEyes, Inc., the world leader in hybrid contact lenses, before joining Innovega to lead contact lens design and clinical and regulatory activities.


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Innovega

Innovega Inc. is developing stylish, lightweight, wearable displays that feature a high-resolution, panoramic-field-of-view system for medical, consumer, and industrial application. The Company is licensing its technology into the $74 billion global vision care market with a focus on image enhancement for the visually impaired. Its transformative patented platform, eMacula™, includes eyewear and iOptik® high-resolution smart contact lenses that work together to deliver broad application in medicine, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR). The Company has been supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Eye Institute (NEI) of National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Science Foundation (NSF) and has received investments from strategic partners. The iOptik contact lens is in the FDA De Novo process Phase II clinical trials in progress. The Company is also pursuing FDA 510(k) Clearance for its lens material.


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