Geographic Atrophy

At the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington, Carl Danzig, MD, caught up with our team to share the exciting results of the GATHER 1 and GATHER 2 clinical trials for avacincaptad pegol for the treatment of geographic atrophy.

The American Society of Retina Specialists is hosting its annual meeting this year in Seattle, Washington. Our team caught up with Baruch Kupperman, MD, PHD who is presenting, "Improving vision and dry AMD matching mechanism with the right patient population and stage of disease" to learn more about this topic.

The presenter, Jeffrey S. Heier, MD, Director of the Retina Service and Retina Research, Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, and an investigator in ARCHER will deliver the data on July 30, 2023.

Belite Bio has completed patient enrollment for a trial evaluating Tinlarebant, which is the first ever treatment for Stargardt Disease.

The company plans to share the first-in-human safety data from the Phase 2/3 SIGLEC trial evaluating intravitreal AVD-104.

The American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) Research and Safety in Therapeutics (ReST) Committee has linked Apellis’ pegcetacoplan injection (Syfovre) with a handful of cases of occlusive retinal vasculitis.

Cognition Therapeutics has dosed the first participant in the phase 2 MAGNIFY study of CT1812. This oral therapy is being studied as a for geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to dry age-related macular edema (AMD).

Akari remains on track and plans to submit an IND application to the US FDA in the first half of 2024, and plans on starting clinical trials in the second half of 2024

Apellis has announced that seven abstracts will be presented at the American Society of Retina Specialists Annual Scientific Meeting including safety and efficacy data for the company’s pegcetacoplan injection for geographic atrophy (GA).

This trial is testing tinlarebant, a novel oral therapy which is intended to reduce the accumulation of toxins in the eye that cause STGD1 and contribute to geographic atrophy (GA).

Clinical benefit of complement inhibition has been demonstrated in clinical trials, but there are possible consequences to consider.

Aviceda Therapeutics doses its first patient with AVD-104 in its Phase 2 SIGLEC Trial. This intravitreal asset is being tried for treatment of geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Curative Biotechnology Inc. has completed and filed a patent cooperation treaty (PCT) application with the U.S. Receiving Office.

Data supports ANX007 as the first complement therapy to preserve visual acuity, achieving statistically significant protection, but reduction in rate of geographic atrophy lesion growth did not reach statistical significance.

The company made these announcements at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 2023 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California.

David S. Boyer, MD, senior partner at Retina Vitreous Associates Medical Group, shares key takeaways from "Advances in geographic atrophy," which he co-presented.

Allen Chiang, MD, discussed the assessment of geographic atrophy progression from the Phase 3 OAKS and DERBY trials with our team at the 2023 ARVO annual meeting.

Lineage Cell Therapeutics Inc. presented results from the company's imaging analyses of structural changes and visual data from a Phase 1/2a clinical study of RG6501 (OpRegen), which is development as a potential treatment for geographic atrophy (GA).

Ophthalmology Times® spoke with Carl Danzig, MD, FASRS, at the 2023 ARVO annual meeting to learn more about the post hoc analysis for the GATHER trials and the new data on the correlation between vision loss and GA growth.

Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc. delivered an oral presentation at the ARVO Annual Meeting in New Orleans announcing their post hoc analyses from the Phase 3 OAKS and DERBY studies evaluating pegcetacoplan injection (Syfovre) for the treatment of geographic atrophy (GA).

RetinAI announced their new partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim with the goal to improve patient outcomes in geographic atrophy (GA) by combining their respective expertise in artificial intelligence and retinal disease research.

Complement Therapeutics GmbH secured financing to continue the development and complete a Phase Ib clinical proof of concept of its lead product CTx001, an AAV gene therapy for the treatment of GA secondary to dry-AMD.

Aviceda Therapeutics announced that the FDA has cleared the Investigational New Drug application for AVD-104, enabling the company to proceed with initiation of Phase 2 clinical trials.

New GA Won't Wait campaign partners Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc. with actor Henry Winkler. The goal of this campaign is to raise awareness and educate older adults and their families about geographic atrophy (GA).