Dr. Jeffrey N. Weiss, a physician, retinal specialist and electrical engineer did his first ocular retinal stem cell surgery in Germany and now it is FDA compliant in the United States.
“I will not accept that somebody is blind, and that’s it,” he said. “In 2010, I did the first ocular retinal stem cell surgery in Düsseldorf, Germany.”
Since then, Dr. Weiss says his procedure is now FDA compliant in the United States. Dr. Weiss uses stem cells from the patient’s own bone marrow.
“These are your stem cells,” he said. “You do not need to be immunosuppressed.”