FDA approves aflibercept injection 8mg for treatment of wet AMD, DME, DR
August 19th 2023According to Regeneron, the approval was based on data in the PULSAR and PHOTON trials, in which the drug demonstrated clinically equivalent vision gains to aflibercept Injection 2 mg that were maintained with fewer injections.
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ASRS 2023: Insights on AVD-104, a sialic-acid coated nanoparticle therapeutic for geographic atrophy
August 15th 2023Carl Regillo, MD, FACS, FASRS, spoke with our team following the annual ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington to share insights from his presentation titled, "Modulation of Macrophages and Complement Dysfunction in Non-exudative AMD utilizing novel, sialic-acid coated nanoparticles." Aviceda Therapeutics is unlocking the proteogenomic code of AMD to target proteins and pathways linked to macular degeneration.
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What causes spontaneous eye movements in albinism?
August 15th 2023A team of researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, one of the causes is the spontaneous back-and-forth movement of the eye is pendular nystagmus. The researchers have demonstrated that the nucleus of the optic tract might be the source of the problem.
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ASRS 2023: The Starlight study
August 6th 2023Michael Singer, MD, spoke with our team about the Starlight Study, an optogenetic study looking at patients who had Stargardt's disease at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting. At the meeting, Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc presented key results from its STARLIGHT Phase 2 clinical trial.
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