Bio-Tissue Announces Strategic Agreement with Scope

Bio-Tissue Inc., a business unit of TissueTech Inc., has forged a strategic agreement with Scope, an eye care company offering ophthalmic products in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The companies will work together to bring Bio-Tissue’s PROKERA biologic corneal bandage devices to the U.K. and Irish eye care professionals market.
 
“Our collaboration with Scope will help us expand our distribution and bring PROKERA to eye doctors in the U.K. and Irish markets,” said Thomas G. Daniells, chief commercial officer of Bio-Tissue. “Scope is a supplier of ocular surface disease therapies in these countries, and as such is an ideal partner to offer PROKERA to eye care professionals and to bring our regenerative healing technology to their patients across the entire corneal disease spectrum.”
 
Eye doctors around the world use PROKERA biologic corneal bandage devices for use in healing and treating corneal involved dry eye, keratitis, recurrent corneal erosions and other ocular surface diseases. The PROKERA products—PROKERA Slim, the original PROKERA, PROKERA Plus and PROKERA Clear—are the only therapeutic devices cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that simultaneously reduce inflammation and promote regenerative healing of the ocular surface.
 
Scope has a strong Irish heritage of over 80 years in the healthcare sector. The company, which is currently managed by John & Tom Freyne, helps bring some of the most innovative, evidence based eye care solutions to the U.K. and Irish markets.

Tom Freyne, Director at Scope said, “Scope is delighted to be a strategic partner of Bio-Tissue and to be launching PROKERA to the U.K. and Irish markets. At Scope, our philosophy is to deliver innovative products that help improve patient outcomes. The launch of PROKERA in the U.K. and Ireland will help to reinforce this philosophy by supporting healthcare professionals in treating their patients more effectively and providing them with superior outcomes. We look forward to working with the team at Bio-Tissue and growing the PROKERA brand in the U.K. and Ireland.”

Bio-Tissue, a business unit of TissueTech, develops and markets regenerative therapies that allow eye care professionals to advance the standard of care for treating the ocular surface. Its core products include cryopreserved amniotic membrane and umbilical cord-based tissue with innate therapeutic actions scientifically proven to heal the ocular surface. The company’s proprietary CryoTek preservation method ensures the tissue retains its biologic activity and healing components. To date, more than 300,000 allografts have been transplanted collectively by Bio-Tissue and sister company Amniox Medical.
 
Scope is an eye care company offering dry eye and blepharitis products in the U.K. and Ireland. The company maintains a major focus on training, customer service, innovation and relationships with key opinion leaders. The Scope range of products include TearLab, the first quantitative diagnostic device for Dry Eye Disease (DED), the HYLO range of preservative-free lubricants for all severities of DED, and BlephEx, unique clinician treatment for blepharitis helping clinicians extend their in-clinic offering, and PROKERA, a biologic corneal bandage for the treatment of ocular surface diseases.