Coupling of the International Society for Contact Lens Research with the Evolution of Soft Contact Lenses
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The advent of soft contact lenses and the paucity of knowledge of the new modality encouraged some leading minds of the time to form a new society, the International Society for Contact Lens Research. The purpose was to provide a forum for the exchange of information on the most current research and developments of contact lenses and its effects on the eye. The limited membership of the society that the founders proposed was to stage scientific meetings that would have minimal presentation time to allow for maximum discussion time of the presented information. Unconcerned about the risk of failure and recriminations of establishing a society of limited membership, the bold steering committee invited researchers involved in this new science and development of contact lenses to become members. The steering committee also realized that it was necessary to enfold the contact lens industry and their scientists in the society. Here we outline that journey from 1978 and how the society has maintained currency. The society, through its scientific meetings, can lay claim to fostering research that led to important developments in the field of contact lenses.
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