Lions Eye Institute to acquire SightLife
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Lions Eye Institute for Transplant and Research has entered into an agreement to acquire SightLife, according to a press release.
The combined organization, which will rebrand with a new name, will be headquartered in Tampa, Florida, with operations continuing at SightLife’s facilities in Seattle. The nonprofit will have nearly 300 employees and will be the largest eye bank, tissue recovery and ocular research center in the world, the release said.
The acquisition will allow Lions Eye to increase the number of vision-saving transplants it can support each year, strengthen connections to physicians who treat corneal blindness and provide more than 20,000 corneas to waiting recipients.
“At Lions Eye Institute, our vision is simple: to help others see,” Jason Woody, president and CEO of Lions Eye Institute, said in the release. “We are driven to improve visual outcomes and quality of life for people who are blind or visually impaired, and we make that happen by creating innovations — new technology, new procedures and new ways to collect and transplant tissue from compassionate donors. This partnership with SightLife takes our ability to accomplish that mission to the next level.”
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