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Aculight Awarded Contract to Develop Optical Cochlear Implant

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Laser technology developer Aculight Corp. has been awarded a $750,000 SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II grant from the National Institutes of Health for its project with Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., to develop an optical cochlear implant (OCI). "We're laying the foundation for a laser-based cochlear implant that provides users with dramatically improved fidelity over current electrical implants," said Mark Bendett, Aculight's director of medical products. The OCI produced will be used in research studies at Northwestern prior to being developed for clinical...Read full article

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