MONROVIA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- STAAR Surgical
Company (NASDAQ: STAA), a leading developer, manufacturer and
marketer of implantable lenses and delivery systems for the eye,
and Memira Holding, Sweden, today
announced they have entered into an agreement effective
January 1, 2016, to provide STAAR's
phakic intraocular lenses (ICL) as a primary and premium option for
refractive eye treatment.
"As the largest refractive eye surgery provider in Scandinavia
with close to 50 clinics and having completed over 400,000
refractive surgery procedures over the last 25 years, we are very
pleased to join with STAAR to provide our patients seeking to
reduce or correct myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism with an
outstanding vision care treatment in the CentraFLOW® ICL. It
is our intention to partner with STAAR in building a clinical data
repository, participating in new product testing, providing
excellent training and certification for our surgeons, placing the
ICL as a primary vision treatment and delivering value pricing for
our patients. Our plans are to continue to expand our vision
treatment services and we believe STAAR will be an excellent
partner to work with us to achieve our objectives," said Michael
Lagerbäck, COO of Memira.
"STAAR is pleased to have entered into a strategic cooperation
agreement with Memira where the CentraFLOW Visian implantable
Collamer® lens will be positioned as a primary and premium vision
correction solution for their patients. In partnership with our
distributor Alyko Medical, we have committed to provide Memira with
close cooperation including technical, marketing, clinical and
educational programs to drive the further growth of the ICL. STAAR
considers cooperation and strategic agreements as fundamental to
its transformational goal to closely align with its customers to
create an outstanding vision care experience and outcome for
patients with essential clinical validation as a core tenet," said
Caren Mason, President & CEO of
STAAR.
About STAAR Surgical
STAAR, which has been dedicated solely to ophthalmic surgery for
over 25 years, designs, develops, manufactures and markets
implantable lenses for the eye with companion delivery systems.
These lenses are intended to provide visual freedom for patients
lessening or eliminating the reliance on glasses or contact lenses.
All of these lenses are foldable, which permits the surgeon
to insert them through a small incision. STAAR's lens used in
refractive surgery is called an Implantable Collamer® Lens or
"ICL". More than 550,000 Visian ICLs have been implanted to date.
To learn more about the ICL go to: www.visianinfo.com. STAAR has
approximately 300 employees and markets lenses in over 60
countries. Headquartered in Monrovia,
CA, the company operates manufacturing facilities in
Aliso Viejo, CA and Monrovia, CA. For more information, please
visit the Company's website at www.staar.com.
Safe Harbor
All statements in this press release that are not statements of
historical fact are forward-looking statements, including
statements about any of the following: statements regarding
proposed prospective products current or future and any statements
of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Important
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those indicated by such forward-looking statements are set forth in
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
January 2, 2015, under the caption
"Risk Factors", which is on file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and available in the "Investor Information" section of
the company's website under the heading "SEC Filings."
These statements are based on expectations and assumptions as of
the date of this press release and are subject to numerous risks
and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ
materially from those described in the forward-looking
statements.
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