Prima
company on 3 shows · 8 statements across 2 episodes · said 16 times in 3 episodes since 2025
No Priors 9 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 4 
Big Technology 3
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Hodak: Science finished macular degeneration trial, planning studies for RP and Stargardt's
“Specifically this is diseases like macular degeneration, which our clinical trial was done and we're about to do studies in retinitis pigmentosa and Stargardt's and a couple of their diseases.”
Hodak: Science secured European marketing approval for Prima retinal implant in July
“So it took us about two years for post acquisition to get it to the place where this was possible, but we just in July got marketing approval in Europe for Prima to start commercially selling it there.”
Hodak: First commercial sales of Prima retinal implant will happen in weeks
“The first sales will happen in the coming weeks.”
Hodak: Prima implant clinical trial patients read books and solved puzzles
“I mean, in the clinical trial, I mean, the main thing was just the existence proof of like that success was a possible outcome, right? Like that we had patients filling in Sudoku puzzles or crossword puzzles. There were patients that were reading books.”
Hodak: Second Sight's retinal implant received $150,000 per patient in reimbursement
“Second site, 10 years ago, they, so there's a company about a decade ago that had a retinal prosthesis that works differently than ours does. It did not get the type of performance that Prima does, but was Briefly approved. Cause then there's really nothing fo…”
Hodak: Next-generation Prima implant will expand addressable market to millions
“The TAM will grow over time for this first version. It's on the scale of like hundreds of thousands of patients in the U S and Europe. So for the current version of Freeman is probably hundreds of thousands of patients. And then the next version, which is Goin…”
Hodak: Prima implant produces normal black-and-white vision in blind patients
“The qualia of Prima is, is normal sight. It's black and white. It's only a, it's a small field of view, but it's vision.”