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POLYRETINA restores light responses in vivo in blind Gottingen minipigs

Charles-Henri Puncho Jérôme Vila, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Paola Vagni, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger, Golnaz Sherafatipour

Retinal prostheses hold potential for artificial vision in blind people. Here, authors show that POLYRETINA, a large and high-density photovoltaic epiretinal device, restores light-evoked cortical responses in blind Gottingen minipigs at safe irradiance le ...

Nature Portfolio2022

All-polymeric transient neural probe for prolonged in-vivo electrophysiological recordings

Diego Ghezzi, Paola Vagni, Laura Ferlauto, Adele Fanelli, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger

Transient bioelectronics has grown fast, opening possibilities never thought before. In medicine, transient implantable devices are interesting because they could eliminate the risks related to surgical retrieval and reduce the chronic foreign body reactio ...

2021

Spatially selective activation of the visual cortex via intraneural stimulation of the optic nerve

Vivien Gaillet, Silvestro Micera, Diego Ghezzi, Paola Vagni, Fiorenzo Artoni, Dario Lipucci Di Paola, Ariastity Mega Pratiwi

Retinal prostheses can restore a functional form of vision in patients affected by dystrophies of the outer retinal layer. Beyond clinical utility, prostheses for the stimulation of the optic nerve, the visual thalamus or the visual cortex could also serve ...

2020

In vivo evaluation of gene editing and prosthetic strategies to restore vision in small and large animal models of retinal degeneration

Paola Vagni

Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) form a group of diverse disorders that lead to the degeneration of the light-sensing cells of the retina: the photoreceptors. IRDs are among the leading causes of blindness in working-age adults living in industrialized co ...

EPFL2020

Gene Editing Preserves Visual Functions in a Mouse Model of Retinal Degeneration

Naïg Aurelia Ludmilla Chenais, Diego Ghezzi, Paola Vagni, Tommaso Marchetti

Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) are a large and heterogeneous group of degenerative diseases caused by mutations in various genes. Given the favorable anatomical and immunological characteristics of the eye, gene therapy holds great potential for thei ...

2019

Multilayer 3D electrodes for neural implants

Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Paola Vagni

Objective. In many applications, multielectrode arrays employed as neural implants require a high density and a high number of electrodes to precisely record and stimulate the activity of the nervous system while preserving the overall size of the array as ...

2018

Design and validation of a foldable and photovoltaic wide-field epiretinal prosthesis

Kevin Sivula, Naïg Aurelia Ludmilla Chenais, Samuel Charles Antoine Gilliéron, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Michele Bevilacqua, Paola Vagni, Laura Ferlauto

Retinal prostheses have been developed to fight blindness in people affected by outer retinal layer dystrophies. To date, few hundred patients have received a retinal implant. Inspired by intraocular lenses, we have designed a foldable and photovoltaic wid ...

Nature Research2018

Development and Characterization of PEDOT:PSS/Alginate Soft Microelectrodes for Application in Neuroprosthetics

Marc Olivier Heuschkel, Flavio Maurizio Mor, Estelle Annick Cuttaz, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Paola Vagni, Laura Ferlauto

Reducing the mechanical mismatch between the stiffness of a neural implant and the softness of the neural tissue is still an open challenge in neuroprosthetics. The emergence of conductive hydrogels in the last few years has considerably widened the spectr ...

2018