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NEWS ROUND-UP: Initial Public Offering by Second Sight Medical Products Inc.

Maker of an artificial retina developed by BME professor Mark Humayun makes IPO
By: Regina Wu
December 02, 2014 —

Second Sight Medical Products Inc, maker of the Argus II -- an artificial retina developed by biomedical engineering professor Mark Humayun -- made its initial public offering on November 19. With this "bionic eye," Humayun has helped restore vision to patients like Lisa Kulik

 Below is a sampling of recent of media articles about this milestone. 

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Shares of Second Sight Medical Products Inc, a maker of artificial retinas designed to partially restore sight to the blind, more than doubled in their market debut. (View article)

Shares of Second Sight Medical Products Inc, a maker of artificial retinas designed to partially restore sight to the blind, more than doubled in their market debut. (View article)

Second Sight Medical Products, which sells camera-based retinal implants that restore partial vision to the blind, raised $32 million by offering 3.5 million shares at $9, as expected. Second Sight Medical Products plans to list on the NASDAQ under the symbol EYES. MDB Capital Group acted as the sole bookrunner on the deal.  (View article)

Medical device company Second Sight Medical Products (NASDAQ:EYES) had to like the view of its initial public offering Wednesday. The company, which makes implantable visual prosthetics, raised $32 million in the IPO by offering 3.5 million shares at 9, as expected. The stock was near 21, up 133%, in afternoon trading on the stock market today. (View article)

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: EYES) announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 3,500,000 shares of common stock, at a price of $9.00 per share. Second Sight develops, manufactures and markets implantable visual prosthetics to restore some functional vision to blind patients. (View article)