Developing a contact lens to fit the Asian eye will be a big aim of one of the 15 new Co-operative Research Centres (CRCs) announced yesterday by the Minister for Science, Mr Crean.Most contact lenses have been designed for round, Caucasian eyes, said the

Developing a contact lens to fit the Asian eye will be a big aim of one of the 15 new Co-operative Research Centres (CRCs) announced yesterday by the Minister for Science, Mr Crean.Most contact lenses have been designed for round, Caucasian eyes, said the managing director of Lane Cove's Eycon Lens Laboratories, Mr Charles Di Natale.The company is one of the industrial partners in the Centre for Eye Technology, to be based at the Cornea and Contact Lens Research Unit at the University of NSW.Mr Di Natale said Australia was academically and technologically well placed to provide for the 1.3 billion people in the Asia-Pacific region who require vision correction and other forms of eye care. March 14, 1991. (Photo by Miller/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).