Glaukos

Glaukos Corporation is a glaucoma treatment company based in Laguna Hills, California. Thomas Burns is Glaukos' president and CEO.

Products

Glaukos developed the "iStent" titanium micro-stent. The device, which is about the width of a human hair, is implanted during cataract surgery to reduce intraocular pressure.As of 2015, the iStent was the smallest device ever approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. The availability of the iStent led to the addition of two codes to the Current Procedural Terminology set in 2015, 0191T and 0376T.

Business model

In 2015, Glaukos planned to transition from private company status to become a public company with an initial public offering (IPO) of company stock. The proposed stock symbol for the company was "GKOS".

Glaukos' president and chief executive officer (CEO) Thomas Burns says Glaukos was the first to develop micro-stents for the treatment of glaucoma and is well ahead of its competitors. The CEO of MicroOptx, Chris Pulling, has stated that Glaukos is his "most direct" competitor.

1870 Glaukos

1870 Glaukos, provisional designation 1971 FE, is a carbonaceous Jupiter trojan, approximately 40 kilometers in diameter. It was by discovered by Cornelis van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden, on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels at the Californian Palomar Observatory, United States on 24 March 1971.

The Trojan asteroid with a C-type spectra orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.1–5.4 AU once every 12 years (4,392 days). It has an assumed albedo of 0.057 and takes 5.9 hours to rotate around its axis. More than 6,200 Jupiter trojans have already been discovered.

The discovery was made in a survey of faint Trojans. The trio of Dutch and Dutch–American astronomers also collaborated on the productive Palomar–Leiden survey in the 1960s, using the same procedure as for this (smaller) survey: Tom Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Cornelis and Ingrid van Houten at Leiden Observatory where astrometry was carried out.