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About Us

Build Clear Vision with Every Smart Drop

Vysum provides easier eye drop delivery and treatment management with digital and hardware technologies for frequent eye drop users, starting with glaucoma patients. 

Vysum, a startup born from the Stanford-inspired BioDesign Innovation course at the University of Melbourne, was founded in 2022 by passionate graduates. Inspired by firsthand experiences with patient struggles, our co-founder, Lorace, a Biomedical Engineer, recognised a critical gap in ophthalmic care.


Through extensive interviews and surveys with 500 patients and clinicians, the team identified the low adherence rate for eye drop treatment and the lack of patient progress data available to healthcare providers.


Witnessing patients’ deep-rooted concerns and struggles due to the lack of suitable assistance for a better eye drop administration experience, Lorace was driven to create a solution…

Team Members

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Lorace Zhang

Founder CEO

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Stephen Ho

Li Hoo

Co-Director, Investor

Optometrist

Kiaran Lawson

Lead Software Engineer

Connie Zhang

Biomedical Engineer

Advisors and Consultant

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Prof Keith Martin

Clinical Advisor

 

  • Clinician-scientist ophthalmologist, Managing Director of the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA)

  • The Ringland Anderson Professor and Head of Ophthalmology at the University of Melbourne

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Dr Danial Roshandel

Nathan Batham

Usability Advisor

  • Clinician-scientist ophthalmologist with extensive clinical expertise in cornea and ocular surface diseases

  • Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia

Product Development Consultant

  • ​Research engineer

  • Entrepreneur

  • Director of Product Design Lab

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