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Optigo Biotherapeutics presents promising preclinical data at ARVO.

The VAN-2401 phase 1 clinical trial will evaluate the use of KH658 for the treatment of wet AMD.

Galimedix Therapeutics advances GAL-101, an oral therapy targeting Alzheimer’s and AMD, completing phase 1 SAD study with promising safety results.

A study reveals that repeated anti-VEGF injections for AMD do not alter retinal vascular metrics over time, ensuring treatment stability.

The company announced 27 abstracts at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2025 Annual Meeting from May 4 to 8 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The FDA did not agree with a supplemental Biologics License Application for the addition of extended dosing intervals of up to 24 weeks across currently-approved indications.

Insights from a genome-wide association study identify novel genetic loci

Authors of the study believe this potential will provide clinicians with valuable information about patient responses to treatment.

The annual ARVO meeting will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah and feature presentation on clinical trials from around the globe.

A decision on a longer dosing duration for the high-dose formulation is expected by April 20, 2025.

This agreement allows a launch in the US in the second half of 2026 or earlier in certain circumstances.

The announcement follows the decision to discontinue the COAST and ShORe trials in wet age-related macular degeneration after the COAST trial failed to meet its primary end point.

Compensation techniques in swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography improve accuracy by correcting signal loss from drusen and other artifacts

A Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of August 27, 2025, was set by the organization.

The study considered the economic disease burden on both the patient and the caregivers, the first such study of its kind.

The decision to discontinue the trials comes shortly after the announcement that COAST missed its primary endpoint.

The trial evaluated sozinibercept (2 mg) every 4 or 8 weeks in combination with aflibercept (2 mg), as per label, every 8 weeks after a loading phase for the treatment of wet AMD.

The combined companies will operate under the name Kalaris Therapeutics, Inc. and expects to report initial data from part 1 of its ongoing phase 1 clinical trial of TH103 in treatment-naïve nAMD patients in the second half of 2025.

RPESC-RPE-4W is a proprietary retinal pigment epithelium cell therapy for patients with dry age-related macular degeneration.

4D-150 is a potential backbone therapy that is designed to provide multi-year sustained delivery of anti-VEGF (aflibercept and anti-VEGF-C) from the retina with a single, safe, intravitreal injection.

Retina Resource was developed by retina specialists for retina specialists.

The findings were from 6 patients in the first low-dose cohort of the ongoing first-in-human trial (NCT04627428).

The data was included in the paper, titled “Sozinibercept Combination Therapy for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Phase 2b Study Subgroup Analysis by Lesion Type.”

ABI-201 aims to prevent dry AMD and other retinal disorders in patients.

Ixo-vec utilizes a proprietary vector capsid, AAV.7m8, carrying an aflibercept coding sequence under the control of a proprietary expression cassette and is designed to be administered as a one-time intravitreal injection.

Zervimesine is an investigational oral, once-daily pill being developed for the treatment of CNS diseases, including Alzheimer disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

If approved, the drug will be branded as LYTENAVA.