Vivani Medical Announces $1 Million NIH Grant Funding to Support Cortigent’s Ongoing Orion Clinical Study

EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vivani Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: VANI) (the “Company” or “Vivani”), an emerging biopharmaceutical company which develops miniaturized, subdermal implants today announced that the Company received notice from the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) of approval of the year 5 funding for the Early Feasibility Clinical Study of the Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis being conducted by its newly formed subsidiary, Cortigent, Inc. This represents the final $1 million