Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Christopher Adams has more than twenty-five years of experience developing and commercializing new technologies in a wide variety of industries. Adams has founded technology and medical device companies, invented new technologies from ophthalmology to metabolic and cancer therapeutics and raised venture financing. His leadership experience includes forming scientific and business advisory boards, negotiating key corporate agreements and managing research collaborations. The companies and technologies have received national and international recognition. Adams co-invented and commercialized a corneal wound healing device based on the combination of an amniotic membrane and contact lens. The technology has been used on over 200,000 patients.
Diopter Technologies develops devices to treat eye disease, from ocular surface abnormalities to ocular surgery to trauma. The technology incorporates a drug delivery mechanism into a commercially available, single use disposable contact lens. The Diopter lens provides a new, non-surgical method to treat eye disease, increasing patient compliance while delivering single or multiple drugs to the eye.