Mark Byrne, a researcher at Auburn University, Alabama has claimed that he has developed a contact lens material that can prove to be helpful in getting medication into the eyes in adequate quantities. He has pointed out that the eye is adapted to keeping alien objects out. The contact-lens material developed by Byrne is capable of holding high concentration of medicines, releasing them slowly. The basis of the idea is to design the molecular structure of the lens material to emulate tissue-receptor sites within the body which are the targets of the drug. Byrne has established a company, OcuMedic, which will market the innovation. It has already been developing anti-fungal contact lenses to treat eye infections in horses.