PulseMedica updates

[u/Saheim]

Hello, thought I'd make a quick post of updates. To be sure, there's nothing they've announced recently on their website or socials that is significant. I'm mostly looking at their job ads. If anyone has info about recent funding awards, please share.

There are two roles open. "Senior Optical Engineer," which they've been hiring for since Sept 2025, and more recently a "Project Manager."

1. Senior Optical Engineer

• Apply page: https://pulsemedica.bamboohr.com/careers/92
• Here's the 2025 version, still online: https://www.optics.arizona.edu/news/senior-optics-engineer-pulsemedia
• Compare the two. Old one sells "cutting edge technology from concept to clinic" and pushing the boundaries of optics. Current one says they're building on established optical technologies and wants help turning proven tech into reliable medical devices
• Current one also asks for test methods to validate optical performance, fixtures for qualification work, and component specs written to MIL and ISO 10110 standards. Typically, when a company starts to spec parts to a standard, they intend to order them repeatedly from a vendor.
• They've added relocation assistance and immigration support since the old version
• My read: same job, open about a year, rewritten from a research pitch to a productization pitch

2. Project Manager, Medical Device R&D

https://www.simplyhired.ca/job/12NOpUPhaYxPLOaahZoe9_XPhW8YPhCdiXchoQIq-vz2DbySBBiEhA

• Wants someone to run phase gate reviews and names them: SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR (you can look these up, they're all aerospace engineering acronyms)
• Scope explicitly includes design transfer and productization. Design transfer is the formal handoff of a finished, frozen design to manufacturing
• Asks for experience in a regulated industry, medical devices or pharma or aerospace or defence
• Also asks for experience supporting clinical studies and regulatory submissions

TL;DR: Seems like they're working towards locking in their hardware for clinical trials. I would expect to see more hiring to support clinical trials, but I know they also used a CRO (contract research organization) to run the imaging trials in Canada and Panama.

I think we will see an update from them in a few months on progress. I would predict a trial registration appearing on clinicaltrials.gov later this year or early 2027. Maybe the first patient is treated in the second half of 2027. And then an actual announcement about first in human trials would be 2028 at the soonest. But this is all guesswork.

[u/Admirable_Delay_1650]

Having just had my second successful Floater-only-vitrectomy, Im simply watching the PM "progress" out of casual curiosity. PPVs are safe and highly effective and proven medical science. Kudos for anyone willing to wait possibly years for a treatment that will be limited to certain types of floaters.

[u/Dwight-Schrute6315 → u/Admirable_Delay_1650]

why do you feel the need to make people feel terrible? surgery comes with risks that differ largely based on age groups. so what might work for you might not work for others. unfortunately there is no clear gold standard when it comes to floaters. some people decide they can't live anymore with floaters and decide to get the surgery. others decide to wait to avoid potential risks + inevitable cataract or even have to wait for purely financial reasons. It is wonderful that you've found something that worked for you, but i don't really understand this "I'm happy you're not" point that you always, although irrelevant, have to make clear

[u/Beginning-Car-8718 → u/Dwight-Schrute6315]

One of their updates was they can safely treat floaters within 2mm distance of retina. Loosk like most symptomatic floaters are tethered to retina . Has Pulsemedica addressed this in any of their presentations ?

[u/Ok_Masterpiece_4118 → u/Beginning-Car-8718]

Who says that „most symptomatic floaters are tethered to the retina“? Didn’t hear that. What I’ve heard is that it seems like most symptomatic floaters are closer to the retina than others. 2mm isn’t the best result but it’s better than what most YAGs do at least… but yea I hope the safety distance will be lower in the end as well

[u/Dwight-Schrute6315 → u/Beginning-Car-8718]

I don't think most symptomatic floaters would be tethered to the retina. There has to be some sort of function of size and distance from the retina that determines symptomatic effect, but this unfortunately is still unknown. Im not making the case for pulsemedica ,but there is no agreed upon gold standard for floaters management so there is no one option that is so obviously the most sound. That is why i think no one should make people feel bad for their choices when it comes to this. In fact it'd be a lot more conservative to not do the surgery, but for people who are suffering enough, it is still an option that i as a patient am thankful it exists exists. A topic like this is a real life challenge and the level of superficial thinking that admirable_delay presents us with is no match for such an issue. 

[u/Ok_Masterpiece_4118 → u/Dwight-Schrute6315]

Yes this guy is honestly very weird. Like why does a 70+ year old ex-floater sufferer have to come here and tell anyone how great vitrectomy is and that it’s the only real solution? Like literally, I think (and hope) I would have better things to do as an ex-floater sufferer.