Pixium Vision - Focus shifts to Prima as human trials proceed

Pixium Vision is developing Prima, a potentially breakthrough wireless sub-retinal implant that generates electrical impulses at the retinal bipolar cell level to restore a form of central visual perception in patients with advanced retinal disease. While competing retinal implants generally target rare conditions involving near-total blindness, Prima seeks to address initially a larger unmet market indication, dry age-related macular degeneration (Dry-ARMD). Prima started human feasibility studies in late 2017 and could start EU pivotal trials in H119. Using a risk-adjusted NPV model, we obtain a pipeline rNPV of €77.4m, down from €82.6m previously.