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Avalign Technologies is one of the leading companies in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
The world`s leading ophthalmic optics company, Essilor designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of lenses to improve and protect eyesight. Its mission is to improve lives by improving sight. To support this mission, Essilor allocates more than €200 million to research and innovation every year, in a commitment to continuously bring new, more effective products to market. Its flagship brands are Varilux®, Crizal®, Transitions®, Eyezen™, Xperio®, Foster Grant®, Bolon™ and Costa®. It also develops and markets equipment, instruments and services for eyecare professionals. Essilor reported consolidated revenue of more than €7.1 billion in 2016 and employs 64,000 people worldwide. It markets its products in more than 100 countries and has 33 plants, 490 prescription laboratories and edging facilities, as well as five research and development centers around the world.
iData Research Inc. is a Vancouver, BC-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Simplify Medical has developed a cervical artificial disc that optimizes MRI imaging, the preferred and most accurate modality for evaluating soft tissue in the spine, while avoiding the ionizing radiation of CT scans. The Simplify Disc incorporates advanced materials to provide a metal free solution, optimum imaging capability, and kinematics.
TearLab Corporation develops and commercializes lab-on-a-chip technologies that enable eye care practitioners to improve standard of care by quantitatively testing for disease markers in tears at the point-of-care. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, TearLab Corporation`s common shares trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol `TEAR` and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol `TLB`. Dry Eye Disease (DED) is a chronic, progressive disease. Morgan Stanley’s Dry Eye Market Report (2003) estimates that 30 to 60 million Americans suffer from dry eye symptoms. Only 10 million are diagnosed with the disease. Millions more suffer worldwide. The TearLab™ Osmolarity System provides the first quantitative and objective diagnostic technology that allows doctors to effectively manage their dry eye patients. TearLab will allow practitioners to diagnosis DED patients early in the disease process allowing for early intervention. TearLab received the CE Mark for its TearLab Osmolarity System in 2008 and FDA Clearance in 2009. TearLab is currently marketed globally in more than 14 countries including the US.