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The Development of a SIBS Shunt to Treat Glaucoma.

Leonard Pinchuk
Published in: Journal of ocular pharmacology and therapeutics : the official journal of the Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2023)
Many pharmaceutical and medical device start-up companies share similar goals. Each experience is different and offers important lessons for companies seeking Food and Drug Administration approval. This article offers important advice for budding entrepreneurs as it discusses some career-altering decisions, lessons learned in the start-up world, the technology leading up to innovation, the relevant science, medicine, chemistry, and engineering, the need to develop novel biomaterials, the regulatory path, and the business process culminating in the development of a Poly(styrene-block-isobutylene-block-Styrene)-based microshunt to treat glaucoma that led to the founding of InnFocus, Inc. (Miami, FL) in 2004, and then the acquisition of InnFocus by Santen Pharmaceuticals (Osaka, Japan) in 2016.
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