Prima

6 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 20, 2026 by Max Hodak · said 9 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Aug 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
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.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 9:16 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
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.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 5:29 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 24:59 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
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.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 2:29 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
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…”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 23:37 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hodak: First commercial sales of Prima retinal implant will happen in weeks
“The first sales will happen in the coming weeks.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 5:43 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
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