Australian Firm to Get Grant to Design Contact Lenses Specifically for Asians
An Australian group has won government funding to design a contact lens for Asian eyes, which it says are subtly different from Caucasian eyes.
Charles Di Natale, managing director of Eycon Lens Laboratories in Sydney, said Friday that his company would cooperate with scientists from the University of New South Wales and the government-funded Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) on the project.
“We’ve been exporting to Asia for 10 years and there are subtle differences between Asian and Caucasian eyes,” Di Natale said by telephone, adding that his company distributes lenses in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Di Natale said Asian people have a different eye shape, eyelid tension, tear chemistry and greater proportion of people who are short-sighted.
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