Recent surveys on children's eye health and myopia by JCI Peninsula and Peninsula Lions Club reveal that nearly half of the families have children suffering from myopia, yet only about 30% of these families get comprehensive eye tests. Leading by Prof. TO Chi-ho, Henry G. Leong Professor in Elderly Vision Health Head, School of Optometry, and Mr LEUNG Tze-man, Jackson, Alumnus of PolyU and Co-founder of Vision Science & Technology Co Ltd (VST), PolyU academic-led start-up, VST has successfully developed breakthrough "myopic defocus" technology, which is applied in their pioneering product, the Defocus Incorporated Soft Contact (DISC) lens, thereby more effectively control myopia progression among children in Hong Kong and beyond.
One of the causes of myopia is eye elongation, which occurs when our eyes focus frequently on nearby objects. The muscles that control the rolling of the eye become increasingly strained, leading to the lengthening of the eyeball. As a result, the image of distant objects cannot be focused clearly on the retina. Typical myopia lenses can correct the projection of image onto the retina, but they do not prevent the elongation of the eyeball, and these lenses will become thicker over time. The research team from VST conducted a clinical trial involving Hong Kong children aged between 8 and 13. The results showed that wearing the DISC lenses for eight hours daily slowed down the progression of myopia by approximately 60%. This finding brings hope to affected children and their parents.
VST has received financial support from the PolyU Micro Fund and the PolyU Tech Launchpad Fund. In 2018, VST secured a licence from PolyU for commercialising DISC technology, which VST manufactures and distributes DISC lenses at its authorised optometric clinics and fitting centres.
Stay tuned for the development of VTS and more exciting Start-up stories are coming from PolyVentures.
小童近視問題嚴重，近日半島青年商會與半島獅子會就兒童眼部健康以及近視情況作調查，近半家庭中有兒童患有近視，但只有約30%家庭會做全面眼睛檢查。理大學者領導初創企業--視覺科技有限公司(VST) ，由理大梁顯利長者健康視覺教授、眼科視光學院學院主任杜嗣河教授與理大校友及VST共同創辦人梁子文先生領導下，成功研發了突破性的「近視離焦」技術，並應用於首創的產品「光學離焦」軟性隱形眼鏡（DISC）上，從而更有效控制小朋友的近視。
近視其中一個成因，就是眼球變長，當眼晴經常觀看近距離的事物，控制眼球轉動的肌肉壓力增加，眼球生長就會變得越來越長，導致遠距離的事物就不能清晰地聚焦在視網膜上。普通的近視鏡片可以將影像正確投射於視網膜上，但不能夠阻止眼球長度繼續增長，而鏡片只會越來越厚。VST 研究團隊的臨床測試證明，每日配戴DISC鏡片8小時，可幫助8至13歲的香港學童減緩近視加深速度達60%，為許多受近視影響的孩子及其家庭帶來了新的希望。
視覺科技曾獲理大微型基金及理大科技領航基金的資助。2018 年理大已授權視覺科技商品化理大相關專利技術，由該公司負責生產和分銷，並向認可的光學診所與驗配中心供應「光學多環近視離焦」隱形眼鏡產品。
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