ASSOCIATIONS

■ ASCO honored: Dr. Morris Berman, lifetime achievement award; R. Mike Daley, industry leadership award; and Drs. Nathan Lighthizer and Nicole Ross, rising star awards.

■ The Scleral Lens Education Society is offering 3-hour, COPE-approved, CE on Oct. 2, New Orleans; Oct. 9, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Oct. 16, Denver; Oct. 23, Atlantic City, N.J.; Oct. 30, San Antonio; and Nov. 6, Newport Beach, Calif. Go to scleerallens.org.

COMPANY NEWS

■ ABB OPTICAL GROUP and Paragon Vision Sciences announced the Optometry Student Challenge, which will award three travel grants, of $1,500, to students who present a scientific poster on a contact lens-related topic at the 2017 Global Specialty Lens Symposium. Visit ABBConcise.com/OptometryStudentChallenge.

■ Alcon appointed JeanMarie Davis, O.D., F.A.A.O., as its director of professional relations and practitioner partnerships, U.S. Vision Care Professional Affairs team.

■ Allergan will acquire ForSight VISION5, which includes its lead development program, a peri-ocular ring for extended drug delivery and decreasing elevated IOP.

■ Bausch + Lomb now offers a mail-in rebate to allow patients to use a portion of their rebate to support Optometry Giving Sight.

■ CooperVision created FightEyeFatigue.com to help eye care professionals talk with patients about digital device use in conjunction with the company’s recent release of Biofinity Energys, a contact lens for device users.

■ Essilor of America has acquired patient education website AllAboutVision.com.

■ 1-800 Contacts partnered with Opternative to offer consumers instaRX, a contact lens online prescription service (see 1800contacts.com/instarx).

■ Beth Marsh joined Shire as commercial strategy lead for SHP640, a development program for the treatment of infectious conjunctivitis.

■ ScienceBased Health has added I. Ben Gaddie, O..D, F.A.A.O., Whitney Hauser, O.D., and Scott Schachter O.D., to its clinical advisory panel.

■ ZEISS will celebrate the birthday of its founding father, Carl Zeiss, on Sept. 11, what would be his 200th birthday.

■ Topcon celebrated the shipping of its 10,000th OCT device.

FDA APPROVALS

■ The Raindrop Near Vision corneal inlay, from ReVision Optics Inc., received approval for the surgical correction of presbyopia. Visit revisionoptics.com.

■ Avedro Inc. received approval for Photrexa Viscous, Photrexa and the KXL System used in corneal collagen cross-linking for the treatment of corneal ectasia post-refractive surgery. Its initial indication: the treatment of progressive keratoconus. Visit avedro.com. OM