Martin David Harp

DAYLIGHT is the first of the company's 3 studies and was a randomized, double-masked, active comparator-controlled study evaluating the efficacy and safety of a high-intensity dosing regimen of tarcocimab tedromer.

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

Vantage Surgical Solutions has acquired Ophthalmic Surgical Solutions (OSS). OSS is a Kansas-based company specializing in ophthalmic surgical equipment and services.

The company announced the Complete Letter Response from the FDA for the Biologics License Application for aflibercept 8 mg is “solely due to an ongoing review of inspection findings at a third-party filler.”

Investigators have enrolled the 112 patients in the KALAHARI phase 2, part B clinical trial for diabetic macular edema (DME). This is above the originally planned total of 108 patients.

Caroline Baumal, MD shares an update on visual function data from DERBY and OAKS Studies based on her presentation at the 2023 Clinical Trials at the Summit annual meeting, held in Park City, Utah.

RAFARM and BioNanoSim have entered into an agreement to create a new Opthalmic company: BNS Opthalmics (BNSO).

World No Tobacco Day helps to bring focus onto risk factors and symptoms of early vision loss linked to smoking.

Prevent Blindness has declared the week of May 15-21 as Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) Genetic Testing Week to promote awareness and provide resources to understand the impact of genetic testing and treatment options.

Roger Goldberg, MD, MBA, spoke with Ophthalmology Times® to share insights about macular leakage area in the YOSEMITE and RHINE trials comparing faricimab to aflibercept.

Michael Ip, MD, highlighted the results of the 5 year follow-up of the original SCORE2 dataset from the NIH-sponsored clinical trial.

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.

Christine Kay, MD, discussed research for the treatment of GUCY2D associated Leber congenital amaurosis type 1 at this year's ARVO meeting held in New Orleans.

Caroline Baumal, MD, spoke with our onsite team at the 2023 ARVO annual meeting to share more about Apellis' presentations focusing on visual function, imaging and artificial intelligence.

Dierck Hillmann, PhD, was interviewed by our onsite team at the 2023 ARVO annual meeting where he shared research on holographic optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Theresa Heath, MD, MBA, spoke with our onsite team at this year's ARVO annual meeting in New Orleans where she shared insights regarding Non-viral gene therapy targeting ABCA4 retinopathies.

Kaushal Solanki, PhD, CEO and founder of Eyenuk, shared news about the company's EyeArt AI, which is cleared by the FDA to detect diabetic retinopathy.

Our onsite team spoke with Bruce Ksander, PhD, at the 2023 ARVO annual meeting, where he discussed his presentation about epigenetic reprogramming to reverse aging and restore function to retinal ganglion cells.

Edmund Arthur, OD, PhD, FAAO, shared how retinal imaging can be an important tool for early detection of diabetic retinopathy in underserved communities.

Our team met with Jay Barth, MD, at the 2023 ARVO annual meeting, where he shared more about the work at Ascidian Therapeutics and how the company is developing a new method to administer gene therapy.

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.

At the 2023 ARVO annual meeting in New Orleans, our on-site team caught up with T. Y. Alvin Liu, MD, to discuss predictive AI and its application in ophthalmology and screening of the eyes.

Deborah Ferrington, PhD, spoke with on our on-site team at the 2023 ARVO annual meeting in New Orleans about her presentation on using human donor tissue to identify the mechanism responsible for the death of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).

The various aspects of home monitoring for patients with age-related macular degeneration are discussed in this point/counterpoint by Prof. Rufino Silva, University of Coimbra / Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Portugal, and Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Robert P. Finger, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Germany, during the 14th annual Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology in Lisbon, Portugal.

Pedro Fonseca, MD, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Portugal, and Andrew G. Lee, MD, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist, Texas, USA, discuss the various pros and cons of offering teprotumumab for all patients with thyroid eye disease.