Inherited Retinal Diseases

With a robust pipeline, new hope for Stargardt disease and retinitis pigmentosa may be on the horizon.

The use of VR mazes hold an intrinsic advantage compared with physical mazes in the ability to control conditions and test various patterns with reliability, participant safety, and repeatability.

According to the company, OPGx-LCA5 is designed to address vision loss due to Leber congenital amaurosis associated with mutations in the LCA5 gene, which causes one of the most severe early-onset retinal dystrophies.

According to the companies, the collaboration has the potential to benefit patients who have suffered from specific, chronic ocular diseases.