Geographic Atrophy

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).

Researchers conducted clinical imaging and histopathologic studies to gain a better understanding of geographic atrophy (GA) in 3 siblings.

Imaging biomarkers are useful to determine the degree of EZ attenuation in the fovea.

Apellis has received FDA approval for intravitreal pegcetacoplan (SYFOVRE) to treat geographic atrophy secondary to AMD. This news follows the submission of the 24-month phase 3 data in November 2022.

Iveric Bio announced a PDUFA goal date of Aug. 19, 2023. The FDA has not identified any potential review issues and is not currently planning to hold an Advisory Committee meeting for avacincaptad pegol.

A study conducted by Gemmy Cheung, MBBS, FRCOphth and colleagues shows geographic atrophy (GA) lesion phenotypes, associated features, and growth rates differ between Asians and non-Asians.