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Derek Hodkey, president and CEO of Orbis International, discusses key achievements for the company and its Flying Eye Hospital in 2022 and offers his outlook for 2023.

The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is expanding the effort to understand that connection with a $10.3 million grant.

Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Retina Research Foundation’s (RRF) Paul Kayser International Award in Retina Research presented by the International Society for Eye Research (ISER).

The study, co-led by Griffith University’s Menzies Health Institute and South Korea’s Center for Convergent Research for Emerging Virus Infection, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, aims to understand how SARS-CoV-2 affects the eyes and whether it could serve as a virus infection route.

The submission follows the U.S. FDA acceptance of the ONS-5010 BLA for wet AMD, with a PDUFA date of August 29, 2023.

According to University of Michigan investigators, the findings could help inform treatments for blindness in humans.

Lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled the $1.7 trillion proposed spending package needed to avert a government shutdown by Friday if both chambers can pass the measure this week.

Company confirms target read-out around the end of 2023 and regulatory submission in Europe in H1 2024. The data will also play an important supporting role in U.S. regulatory submission.

Parexel teams with MyEyeDr. to leverage MyEyeDr.’s 850+ offices across the United States to refer patients into ophthalmology and other therapeutic area clinical trials, expands Parexel’s Community Alliance Network to bring trials to patients where they are.

Spanish investigators found that local resection may offer better visual results and eye sparing without compromising local tumor control and survival.

Investigators have found that cells within retinal blood vessels are endowed with a previously unappreciated ability to acquire resistance against the damaging effects of hyperglycemia in patients with diabetes mellitus.

According to the company, the IDMC recommended continuation of the study based upon the outcome of the futility analysis.

Harrow Health Inc. announced it has reached an agreement to purchase the exclusive U.S. commercial rights to 5 ophthalmic drugs from Novartis AG for up to $175 million, the company announced today.

As we approach the end of 2022, members of the Ophthalmology Times Europe® Editorial Advisory Board were asked to predict developments in their ophthalmic specialties and interests. A focus is our ageing population, while efficiency and productivity are also on their minds. The board members agree that one of the major challenges in the year to come will be the large number of patients awaiting diagnosis and treatment, which is only going to increase with the rising average life expectancy worldwide.

In a multicenter phase 1/2 safety study conducted in the US and UK, researchers conducted a dose-escalation trial of AAV5-RPGR that included low, intermediate, and high doses of the gene therapy administered to 3, 4, and 3 adults, respectively.

The results represent a major step towards first in-human clinical studies for this program - the first potential therapy for patients with geographic atrophy secondary to AMD that addresses the underlying causes of the disease.

According to the AAO and Verana Health, the partnership seeks to increase clinical trials access, accelerate recruitment, and advance ophthalmic research.

According to a team of German investigators, visual cells in the human retina may not simply die in some diseases, but are mechanically transported out of the retina beforehand.

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According to the company, OPGx-001 is Opus’ first program to enter clinical evaluation and is designed to address vision loss due to mutations in the LCA5 gene, which causes one of the most severe forms of early-onset blinding disease Leber congenital amaurosis.

A breakthrough gene therapy approach, SPVN06 is aimed at stopping or slowing disease progression in patients affected by IRDs and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), regardless of their genetic background.

According to a news release, the findings build on evidence from a previous study led by the Johns Hopkins researchers that found potentially a third of patients with wet AMD could safely pause therapy after one year of monitoring by a physician.

Ophthalmologists are now armed with new therapies to fight retinal disease.

According to physician, this therapeutic may prove to be a treatment option for these diseases.

Investigators examining end-stage RP witness the partial visual recovery in 2 patients.

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