Eyemetagenomics

Eyemetagenomics Ltd has been founded from a group of opthalmologists to understand and develop the largest worldwide database of the eye microbiome through a metagenomic approach. Several years of medical practice and research of the human eye allowed the development of LUCY, the most advanced solution to integrate microbiome analysis into clinical practice, to help guide therapeutic decisions and provide targeted prevention to patients. LUCY compares the microbiome and also analyses the different types of microorganisms present in the patient’s eye with hundreds of microbiomes of healthy subjects and pathologies such as glaucoma, dry eye, Steinert syndrome etc.; in this way it is possible to evaluate whether specific bacterial genera are in excess or in defect with respect to the average of the control database, in order to identify and characterize situations of dysbiosis. LUCY also represents an incredible new opportunity to compile data for future research in the treatment of eye diseases.