KeraLink International

KeraLink International

Active

Venture Capital

Medical Devices & Instruments

David Green

Chief Executive Officer

5520 Research Park Drive 400
Baltimore, MD 21228
USA

KeraLink International (KLI) is a forward-thinking non-profit, 501(c)3 organization singularly focused on bringing clinicians, technology innovators, health care providers, philanthropists, and investors into a coordinated, collaborative effort to eradicate corneal blindness in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Originally founded as the Maryland Eye Bank in 1962 and later known as Tissue Banks International, KLI dedicated itself to eliminating the waiting list for corneal transplants in the United States. By 2019, collaborating with other eye banks, we achieved that goal and had become one of the world's largest providers of sight-restoring ocular tissue and an innovator in tissue processing technology. These were monumental achievements. However, we realized that what worked in the United States and other developed countries was not likely to work in regions where treatment is most needed: LMICs. So, we sold our banks and transformed ourselves into the only organization

11/3/2023