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Received: 3 February 2018

Accepted: 27 July 2018

First Online: 13 August 2018

Competing interest

: The author is working on the development of a cortical visual neuroprosthesis for the blind.

: Eduardo Fernandez received a M.D. degree at the University of Alicante (1986) and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience (1990). He is currently Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Histology and Anatomy at the University Miguel Hernandez de Elche (Spain), Director of the Neural Engineering Division of CIBER-BBN Networking Centre on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (Spain), and Adjunct Professor at John Moran Eye Center (University of Utah, USA). In the latest years he has been coordinating several projects to demonstrate the feasibility of a neuroprosthesis interfaced with the occipital cortex, as a means through which a limited but useful sense of vision could be restored to profoundly blind people.

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