July 31st 2025
EyePoint Pharmaceuticals completes enrollment for the LUCIA trial, advancing DURAVYU's potential as a new treatment for wet AMD.
Study: Treatment developed to dramatically slow progression of blindness-causing retinal diseases
February 24th 2024Researchers have found that the interactive release of anti-inflammatory drugs depend on the level of retinal degeneration. A customized treatment approach is expected to be developed to reduce patients’ inconvenience of having multiple shots.
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Kiora Pharmaceuticals CEO discusses partnership with Théa Open Innovation and pipeline updates
February 12th 2024David Hutton of Ophthalmology Times talks with Brian Strem, PhD, CEO Kiora Pharmaceuticals, about their recent partnership with Théa Open Innovation and further development of their KIO-301 and KOI-104 programs.
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Study examines the influence of the cellular environment on vision
February 10th 2024Researchers noted a study by Ruhr-University Bochum researchers provides crucial evidence that the ECM influences visual sensory motor behavior already at the retina level, without intervention of disease and/or experimental manipulation.
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Mapping the specific progressing anatomic features from drusen to type 3 MNV
February 5th 2024Elodie Bousquet, MD, PhD, and international researchers studied type 3 macular neovascularization (T3 MNV) using optical coherence tomography. In 64.5% of 31 eyes with T3 MNV, it developed over soft drusen, showing drusen growth and outer layer thinning before T3 MNV.
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Angiogenesis 2024: AVD-104 for Geographic Atrophy
February 3rd 2024Carl Danzig, MD, sat down with Martin David Harp of Ophthalmology Times to discuss his presentation AVD-104 for Geographic Atrophy: Glyco-immunologic modulation of macrophage activity from the Angiogenesis Exudation and Degeneration 2024 event.
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Researcher: Red light myopia therapy can injure retina
February 1st 2024A University of Houston professor found that the excitement over the results of LLR as a treatment option for patients with myopia may have come too soon, before its efficacy was confirmed. One company is taking exception with the study.
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Reginald Sanders, MD, FASRS, named president of the American Society of Retina Specialists
January 30th 2024Sanders is affiliated with the Retina Group of Washington (RGW) and PRISM Vision Group. He is the first African American and the first PRISM-affiliated physician to serve as president of the ASRS.
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FDA approves trial plan and fast tracks Ascidian Therapeutics' ACDN-01 in Stargardt Disease
January 29th 2024ACDN-01 is the first-ever RNA exon editor to enter clinical development and the only clinical-stage therapeutic targeting the genetic cause of Stargardt disease. Ascidian expects to initiate enrollment in Phase 1/2 STELLAR study in the first half of 2024.
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Biosimilars to treat retinal diseases: Successful outcomes, patient satisfaction
January 23rd 2024Two retina specialists participated in an Ophthalmology Times case-based roundtable discussion and shared their experiences using the anti-VEGF biosimilars, ranibizumab-eqrn and ranibizumab-nuna to manage retinal diseases.
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