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Daniel Palanker

Daniel Palanker

Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University

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All previous attempts to provide vision with prosthetic devices resulted in basically light sensitivity, not really form vision. We are the first to provide form vision.

The device we imagined in 2005 now works in patients remarkably well.

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The race to restore sight

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Co-senior author of landmark PRIMA clinical trial

Stanford researchers implanted a chip smaller than a Tic Tac under the retinas of 38 blind patients. A year later, 27 could read again. Some read entire books. The PRIMA device, published October 20, 2025 in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the first prosthetic to restore functional vision to people with macular degeneration—the leading cause of irreversible blindness.

Updated Jan 9