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Heidelberg Engineering Emphasizes Anterior Segment Focus under New Clinical Director

12 January 2021

Heidelberg, Germany – Steve Thomson joins Heidelberg Engineering as Clinical Director to further strengthen the Anterior Segment product development team. He will concentrate on the integration of data and images into increasingly efficient and effective anterior segment workflows for clinical practice. Steve Thomson assumes his new role as Clinical Director – Anterior Segment effective January […]

Virtual Imaging Symposium a shining example in how to conduct events online

11 December 2020

Heidelberg, Germany – Heidelberg Engineering was due to celebrate its 30th anniversary on the 30th-31st October 2020 with a special edition of the annual International Imaging Symposium. The COVID-19 pandemic meant that the event could no longer take place at the Print Media Academy in Heidelberg, Germany as planned. This did not stop the Heidelberg […]

New Scientific Director strengthens Heidelberg Engineering product development

1 December 2020

Heidelberg, Germany – Charles Reisman has joined Heidelberg Engineering’s global management team as Scientific Director. In this newly created role, he will be responsible for the clinical research plan that directly feeds into the product development pipeline. Heidelberg Engineering is strengthening its Clinical Research team with the addition of Charles Reisman as Scientific Director. Charles […]

Prof. John M. Nolan receives Heidelberg Engineering Xtreme Research Award 2020

6 May 2020

Heidelberg, Germany – Prof. John M. Nolan, from the Nutrition Research Centre Ireland, School of Health Science, Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland), is the recipient of the Xtreme Research Award 2020 for his research related to macular pigment for vision health and function, as well as for his recent work on how to use macular […]

Heidelberg Engineering supply free OCT protective breath shields

29 April 2020

Heidelberg Engineering have begun shipping protective breath shields free of charge to SPECTRALIS owners in the UK. The protective breath shield is designed to form a transparent barrier between the patient and the operator of the device in order to minimise the risk of the transfer of pathogens*. “We are committed to aiding our customers […]

Heidelberg Engineering brings back in vivo corneal microscope due to high demand of ophthalmology market

20 March 2020

Heidelberg, Germany – Heidelberg Engineering, the industry leader in ophthalmic diagnostic imaging, announces the reintroduction of its HRT3 Rostock Cornea Module (RCM) to offer in vivo corneal confocal microscopy in its anterior segment product portfolio, supporting cornea specialists worldwide to further improve patient care. HRT3 RCM is a compact ophthalmic device that uses confocal scanning […]

New high-caliber publication validates macular pigment assessment with SPECTRALIS

14 January 2020

Heidelberg, Germany – The paper “Standardizing the Assessment of Macular Pigment Using a Dual-Wavelength Autofluorescence Technique”, published in Translational Vision Science & Technology in December 2019, demonstrates how the investigational SPECTRALIS® Macular Pigment Optical Volume* (MPOV) measurement provides a comprehensive and objective evaluation of the macular pigment (MP) profile. Macular pigment has been confirmed as […]

Heidelberg Engineering appoints Christopher Mody as Clinical Director

5 December 2019

Heidelberg, Germany – In this new role, Christopher Mody, an ophthalmic scientist with 30 years clinical ophthalmology experience in the public sector and 7 years at Heidelberg Engineering UK, will be facilitating the exchange of scientific information between the global ophthalmic community and the company. From its inception almost 30 years ago, Heidelberg Engineering has […]

Heidelberg Engineering appoints new distribution partners in Norway and Sweden

29 October 2019

Heidelberg, Germany – Heidelberg Engineering has appointed new distributors in Norway and Sweden to care for the company’s growing product portfolio and deliver the high standard of support and education Heidelberg Engineering customers have come to expect. Preisler Instrument AB and Instrumentpartner AS will be the official distribution partners in Sweden and Norway respectively. “Our […]

SPECTRALIS software adds macular reference database and deviation maps functionality

17 October 2019

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom – SPECTRALIS Glaucoma Module Premium Edition (GMPE) customers having installed the SPECTRALIS release 6.12.1 can now benefit from the discriminative power of the macular reference database with the addition of thickness deviation maps for retina, retinal nerve fibre, ganglion cell and inner plexiform layers. This feature is free of charge to […]