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Behind every medical innovation, there is a question that wouldn't go away. ▫️ For Dr. Mario Miranda, that question came from decades inside the operating room, watching patients with advanced glaucoma exhaust every available option, and still not achieving sustained intraocular pressure control. Dr. Miranda is a Peruvian ophthalmic surgeon with over 50 years of active clinical practice. Trained at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, with fellowships in Biophysics at the The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda and the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research in Caracas, he built his career at the intersection of surgery, research, and instrument design. 🔸 He founded mm Instruments Inc. — a company dedicated to the design and manufacturing of ophthalmic microsurgical instruments — because he understood that better surgery often starts with better tools. That same conviction led him to develop the 𝗜𝗣𝗠 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲: a flat, non-tubular implant made of surgical steel that achieves self-regulated aqueous humor drainage — without tubes, without fixed mechanisms, using a standard surgical technique accessible to any ophthalmic surgeon. The development began in 2014, self-funded, built on clinical experience rather than theory. The result: 33 granted patents across the world's most strategic markets. A Gold Medal 🥇 with congratulations from the jury at the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva. 1st place in Biotechnology & Medicine at the National Contest of Inventions of Peru. 📃 And now, the first peer-reviewed clinical outcomes published in Clinical Ophthalmology — co-authored with Dr. Ike Ahmed. The 𝗜𝗣𝗠 is not the result of a laboratory hypothesis. It is the result of a surgeon who refused to accept that the current options were enough. 🔗 Full publication: link in first comment. 🌐 mminstruments.org #IPM #Glaucoma #Ophthalmology #GlaucomaSurgery #MedicalInnovation #OpenAngleGlaucoma #ClinicalResearch #MedTech #OphthalmicSurgery #MMInstruments