Melavision

Photoprotective Technologies uses melanin synthesized from organic materials to protect your eyes and skin to allow for a more natural way to enhance protection from harmful light.

Physicians & Surgeons Equip & Supls-Mfrs The Cfo of Photoprotective Technologies is Christina Gallas Business classifications
SIC (US 1987) : Since 1989, Photoprotective Technologies, Inc. has developed the patents and technologies to synthesize and chemically modify melanin so that it can be incorporated into various skin care products and optical quality plastic lenses.
Photoprotective Technologies (PPT) has taken a lead in the business and development of intellectual property and technology of photoprotection - by using melanin as a paradigm. PPT first licensed its melanin lens patents to sunglass distributor Bauch and Lomb around 1990. Although inventor and CEO, Jim Gallas, got his story about melanin lenses onto the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
PPT next licensed Intercast Europe which got the insurance leg of the Swiss Government to endorse the melanin lenses for their potential to reduce the risks of macular degeneration. A few years later, Austria-based Mare Nostrum provided the Intercast melanin lenses to its expedition scientists who were literally blinded by the extreme glare at the South Pole. Lenscrafters adopted the melanin lenses when it learned that the vision problems at the South Pole were solved with melanin lenses after one week