GlobalCONTACT
ISSUE 02/2025
Overview
Report: EFCLIN Congress // BCLA Clinical Conference // Market Data Report // Company Profile: Sub Micron Tooling // Fitting Background: Powerful profiles // Business & Marketing: AI in Training // Special: 100th Issue of GlobalCONTACT
NEWS
Prevent Blindness names Matt MacDonald as Chair of Board of Directors
Prevent Blindness, has announced that Matt MacDonald, president and global head of managed care, EyeMed Vision Care, was appointed chair of its board of directors on November 14, at the 2025 Prevent Blindness annual board meeting here. MacDonald succeeds Jim McGrann, CEO of Advancing Eyecare, who was named an emeritus member of the board. At…
Custom contact lens manufacturer Scotlens unveils new brand identity
Scotlens, a leading custom contact lens manufacturer, has unveiled its refreshed brand identity at the Hospital and Specialty Optometrists Conference (8–9 November 2025). The rebrand follows its acquisition by Contact Lens Precision Laboratories (CLPL) six months ago and aligns Scotlens with CLPL and sister company Ultravision, which rebranded in 2024. “This integration strengthens our mission…
ONE by ONE Recycling program collects used contact lens
Bausch + Lomb Corporation (NYSE/TSX: BLCO), a leading global eye health company, has announced its ONE by ONE Recycling program has collected a total of 691,180 pounds, or 114,037,136 units, of used contact lens, eyecare and lens care materials in the United States. The program, created in collaboration with international recycling leader TerraCycle, continues to…
LENZ Therapeutics shares 3rd quarter financial results
LENZ Therapeutics, Inc. the pharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization of recently FDA-approved VIZZ (aceclidine ophthalmic solution) 1.44%, has announced financial results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2025, as well as recent corporate highlights. Highlighted among those was the FDA approval in late July of VIZZ, an aceclidine-based eye drop for the treatment…
BostonSight Appoints Dr. Karen Carrasquillo as Chief Innovation and Education Officer
BostonSight, a nonprofit eye health care organization that advances the treatment of irregular corneas and ocular surface disease through specialty lenses, announced today that Karen Carrasquillo, OD, Ph.D., FAAO, FSLS, FBCLA, has been appointed to the new role of chief innovation and education officer, effective immediately. She formerly served as senior vice president, clinical and…
ARTICLES
Pediatric Scleral Lenses
The care and treatment of vision problems in childhood is particularly challenging, especially when conventional visual aids are not sufficient. A 21-year retrospective study by Carrasquillo et al. highlights the long-term effects and benefits of scleral lenses in pediatric care.
Presbyopinion
Everyone has an opinion on presbyopia. But let’s stick to the facts and answer this question: What is presbyopia, exactly, and what can we do about it? Part I here in GlobalCONTACT covered the mechanism of accommodation and presbyopia as well as definitions of the condition.
Contact lenses in their DNA
Hecht Contactlinsen GmbH is based in Au near Freiburg, Germany, and is one of the leading manufacturers of customized contact lenses. Founded in 1978, the company specializes in individual solutions for contact lenses and offers high-quality RGPs as well as soft contact lenses. In addition, several subsidiaries have been added over the years.
The Summit of Specialty Contacts
From November 23 to 24, 2024, everything in Rome revolved around specialty contact lenses. It is the only international meeting of its kind in Europe and has brought together opinion leaders from over 25 countries in the field of specialty contact lenses to share their experiences, research results and innovative ideas.
LenzBox: Innovative contact lens cleaning
Efficient contact lens care for soft contact lenses is particularly important for long-term and safe contact lens wear. At the last Opti Munich 2024, a start-up presented a completely new system that not only simplifies contact lens care, but also manages the amount of care product used sustainably.
Chat GPT and other AI – a new language for the industry
An interview with CSEM machine learning expert Philipp Schmid ChatGPT and other AIs have recently caused a furor in virtually all professions where people write, program or design. How much dust are these supposedly general-purpose AIs stirring up in the industry? The general-purpose AIs are kicking up an enormous amount of dust. But unlike 2016,…
LETTER
Employee, where are you?
Are you having trouble finding employees? And to keep them? There’s a specter haunting the EU – and unfortunately, it’s very real: The shortage of skilled workers. And it’s particularly noticeable in some EU countries. That’s because demographic change is in full swing here – and often more advanced than in other regions of the world.