TechTransfer Day
Smart Contact Lenses: Embedded Technologies beyond Vision
September 29 – 30, 2025
(Lunch to lunch)
Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Saarbrücken, Germany
Event info
Tomorrow’s contact lenses will leverage our capabilities to perceive and interact with the world around us. Augmented reality contact lenses will enable navigation and communication without the need of visible hardware. Therapeutic contact lenses that sense, monitor and treat diseases will open new paradigms for health management and personalized therapies while being imperceptible to the wearer. Although many of these technologies have reached the prototype phase, their translation into viable commercial devices is not trivial. New functions need to be integrated into devices of highest comfort and ecologically responsible manufacture to ensure widespread consumer adoption.
We invite industry experts to join us and discuss the emerging opportunities and challenges in the future smart contact lens market, and to form collaborations for the successful translation of new technologies into everyday use. In seminars and discussion tables we will explore the latest advances in device design, technology integration and materials engineering. Register today and be part of the future of contact lenses!
Registration Form
Confirmed Speakers
Prof. Chi Hwan Lee
Chi Hwan Lee is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indianapolis. His Research Group focuses on bridging a critical gap between engineering and unmet clinical needs. It explores a variety of wearable biomedical devices that can be safely attached to the skin or eye, enabling continuous remote assessment of human health and diseases
Prof. Ali Yetisen
Ali K. Yetisen is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. The Centre for Biochemical Sensors develops biochemical sensors, optical materials, and devices for medical diagnostics, therapeutics, and imaging.
Prof. Philip Morgan
Philip Morgan is Professor of Optometry and Director of Eurolens Research at The University of Manchester. He is President of the International Association of Contact Lens Educators and is Past President of the International Society for Contact Lens Research. His main research interests relate to the clinical performance of contact lenses. He has managed an annual international survey of contact lens prescribing trends since 1996.
Prof. Jason J. Nichols
Jason J. Nichols is Professor at the School of Optometry and Senior Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Alabama (US). He is an expert in ocular surface and his main research interests are in dry eye, meibomian gland disease, and pharmaceutical and medical device development and testing. He is currently Editor of Contact Lens Spectrum and Contact Lenses Today® and has Chaired the AAO’s Research Committee and the Tear Film and Ocular Surface (TFOS) Society’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Board.
Prof. Jang-Ung Park
Jang-Ung Park is Prof. for Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University in South Korea. His research focuses on wearable opto-electronic devices as free-form electronics with IoT (Internet of Things) technology, including transparent, foldable, stretchable, 4D-printable, or self-healable properties. The group combines electronics with human life and environment, and spans fundamental science and technology transfer.
Prof. Aránzazu del Campo
Aránzazu del Campo is the Scientific Director and CEO of the INM– Leibniz Institute for New Materials and Professor for Materials Chemistry at Saarland University. Her research focuses on hydrogel materials for cell encapsulation and biofabrication of therapeutic devices. In the field of ocular drug delivery, her group works on self-replenishable, drug eluting contact lenses for zero-waste therapeutic solutions.
Discussion Moderators
Sensimedic (CH)
Implandata (DE)
Azalea Vision (BE)
Program
29.09
TechTransfer Day
| TIMESLOT | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Registration, welcome lunch |
| 13:00 |
t.b.a. Prof. Chi Hwan Lee Purdue University (US) |
| 13:40 |
t.b.a. Prof. Ali Yetisen Imperial College London (UK) |
| 14:20 |
Discussion Session 1 Topic t.b.a. Moderator: Enrique Vega (Azalea Vision) |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 |
t.b.a. Prof. Jang-Ung Park Yonsei University (KR) |
| 16:10 |
Discussion Session 2 Topic t.b.a. Moderator: Sacha Cerboni (Sensimed AG) |
| 17:00 |
t.b.a. Prof. Philip Morgan Eurolens Manchester (UK) |
| 17:40 |
Discussion Session 3 Topic t.b.a. Moderator: t.b.a. |
| 18:30 | End |
| 19:30 | Dinner (downtown) |
30.09
TechTransfer Day
| TIMESLOT | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| 09:00 |
t.b.a. Prof. Jason J Nichols University Alabama (US) |
| 10:20 |
Self-lubricating Contact Lenses Prof. Aránzazu del Campo, INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials (DE) |
| 11:00 |
Discussion Session 4 Topic t.b.a. Moderator: Max Ostermeier (Implandata GmbH) |
| 12:00 | Farewell lunch |