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SpyGlass Pharma acquires AVS from Santen for $13M to secure IOL supply
SpyGlass Pharma, Inc.
- SpyGlass Pharma closed its acquisition of 100% of Advanced Vision Science (AVS) from Santen Holdings US on October 1, 2026, for a purchase price of $13,000,000 in cash.
- AVS was SpyGlass Pharma's intraocular lens supplier and will continue to manufacture IOLs under the Eternity brand for Santen, which gets exclusive rights to sell those products in Japan.
- At closing, AVS and Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. signed an Amended and Restated Supply and Distribution Agreement and cross licenses.
- AVS will continue licensing its glistening-free hydrophobic acrylic lens material to Bausch + Lomb for the enVista IOL line and manufacturing for other global IOL companies.
- SpyGlass said the deal secures scalable commercial IOL manufacturing for its Phase 3 BIM-IOL System and may add toric and extended depth-of-focus premium lenses.