Eye for an eye: Start-up bio-engineers cornea tissue for vision restoration

Pandorum Technologies, a biotech start-up, said it has developed a bio-engineered cornea tissue that can promote scarless healing of corneal wounds through bio-inspired regenerative approach. 

Scientists at Pandorum have successfully formulated a novel hydrogel that can encapsulate and deliver corneal stem cells to the wound site, to stimulate scarless regeneration. 

Pandorum’s cell laden hydrogel can be directly applied in a minimally invasive manner as ‘Liquid Cornea’ to corneal wounds and perforations, and can also be 3D bio-printed as corneal lenticules for lamellar keratoplasty, a surgical procedure.

“Being able to bio-engineer critical tissues such as the human cornea is a significant