Ithaca recently purchased a 14% stake in MacCulloch, which lies 250km (155 miles) north east of Aberdeen on the UK Continental Shelf.
The company has UK offices in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Runcorn and Hull.
Until now the treatment has only been available at selected treatment centres in the UK, including Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where it was officially launched to eye specialists on Wednesday.
Married, with two children, Mr Hayward considered going into academia, but instead went to BP in 1982 and was posted first to Aberdeen, home of the UK's North Sea oil boom.
British Airways has announced the end of six flights to UK regional destinations from Aberdeen airport.
Comedian Billy Connolly and author Stuart MacBride have backed Aberdeen's bid to be UK City of Culture in 2017.
Muse aims for completion during 2016, tied in with Aberdeen's hope to be named UK City of Culture 2017.
"We were expecting a statement to the stock market on Tuesday saying a consortium - partly French, partly Canadian - based in Aberdeen - will be taking over the UK search and rescue fleet starting from 2012, " he told BBC Wales.
The study of UK waters was carried out at Aberdeen University by Professor Alex Kemp and Linda Stephen.
Professor Hugh Pennington, a leading microbiologist based at Aberdeen University, told the Times newspaper the UK public health laboratory network was envied in America.
Meanwhile, the new oil and gas strategy aimed at securing thousands of jobs and billions of pounds of investment was unveiled by UK Business Secretary Vince Cable in Aberdeen, which is known as the oil capital of Europe.
Last week, Aberdeen-based FirstGroup warned that margins at its UK bus division would be squeezed from 13% to 8% this year.
The draft master plan sets out how Aberdeen Airport will develop to meet that future demand, and compete more effectively against UK and European rivals.
While investment in UK water is back in boom times, the offshore industry in and around Aberdeen appears to be doing exceptionally well at diversifying into foreign markets.
In the UK, three Aldi burger products - frozen Oakhurst 100% beef quarterpounders, frozen specially-selected Aberdeen Angus quarterpounders and frozen Oakhurst beefburgers (16 pack) - were withdrawn when the horsemeat discovery was made public.
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