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"What research at the 2023 ASRS meeting do you find exciting or interesting?" Here's what Aaron Lee, MD, Megan Baldwin PhD, and Carl Danzig, MD had to say!

Sruthi Arepalli, MD, spoke with our team about the current landscape of geographic atrophy (GA) and her presentation at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium being held in Marco Island, Florida.

The findings of this study shed new light on processes such as learning and memory but also the development of blinding conditions.

Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. provided an update on the company’s ongoing Phase 2 LUNA trial evaluating ixoberogene soroparvovec (Ixo-vec) for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).

Kerrie Brady, Chief Executive Officer and President of OcuTerra Therapeutics shared updates from the company including the development of OTT166 at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

David Lally, MD, spoke with our team about the ZETA-1 phase 2 trial efficacy results for APX3330, a novel, oral ref-1 inhibitor for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Veena Raiji, MD, MPH, spoke with our team about long-term outcomes of eyes requiring IOP-lowering medication in the PALADIN trial at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASRS, a member of Modern Retina's editorial advisory board, spoke with us about clinical characteristics of macular holes that close without surgery.

At the 2023 ASRS annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, Michael Singer, MD, spoke with our team about the Starlight Study, which is an optogenetic study looking at patients who had Stargardt disease.

Aleksandra Rachiskaya, MD, a member of the Modern Retina advisory board, spoke with our team about time to fluid control with faricimab arms complete compared to aflibercept in recent studies at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Nancy Lurker, Executive Vice-Chair of the Board of EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, discussed the subgroup analyses of the Phase 1 DAVIO Trial of EYP-1901 with our team at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Paul Hahn, MD, PhD, shared insights on research comparing the relative efficacy of pegcetacoplan versus avacincaptad pegol in patients with geographic atrophy presented at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

President and CEO at Outlook Therapeutics, Russ Trenary, shared an update on the company's work toward FDA approval for Bevacizumab with our team at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Megan Baldwin, PhD, CEO and Managing Director of Opthea Limited, spoke with our team about the company's clinical trial drug OPT-302 (sozinibercept) at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Tarek Hassan, MD, spoke with our team about a novel glyco-mimetic nanoparticle, Aviceda AVD-104, being developed for the treatment of geographic atrophy.

At the 2023 ASRS annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD, spoke with our team to share information on the GALE extension study.

The Modern Retina team caught up with one of our board members, Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASRS, who shared information on his presentation on the treatment of progressively symptomatic retinal detachments associated with retinoschisis cases at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

At the 2023 ASRS annual meeting, Dante Pieramici, MD, spoke with our team to share information on OPT-302, or sozinibercept, for the treatment of neovascular AMD and other retinal vascular diseases.

Shawn Kavoussi, MD, shared insights from his research on using infrared video for vitreous opacities and comparing postoperative reduction in vitreous opacity scores using infrared video with the Heidelberg spectralis unit.

Durga Borkar, MD, MMCi, joined our team to discuss the FARETINA-DME study At the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington.

Richard B. Rosen, MD, shared insights from his presentation from ASRS 2023 on "New 'MacGyver-inspired' endolaser option for chandelier-assisted scleral buckles" with Sheryl Stevenson, our Group Editorial Director.

Cindy Cai, MD, shared insights from her presentation from ASRS 2023 on "Health disparities in lapses in diabetic retinopathy care" with Sheryl stevenson, our Group Editorial Director.

Michael Ip, MD, shared his perspective on the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington. He noted presentations and trends that are key at this event and why he thinks they are valuable topics to understand and review for retina specialists.

Diana Do, MD, professor of ophthalmology and vice chair of clinical affairs at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University, spoke with our team about the 2-year data on the PHOTON study, which involved 8 milligrams of aflibercept for diabetic macular edema at the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington.

At the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington, Carl Danzig, MD, caught up with our team to share the exciting results of the GATHER 1 and GATHER 2 clinical trials for avacincaptad pegol for the treatment of geographic atrophy.

Aaron Lee, MD, shared how research and new techniques are expanding the options for deep learning in ophthalmology. He spoke with our team at the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington to share more about this research.

The presenter, Jeffrey S. Heier, MD, Director of the Retina Service and Retina Research, Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, and an investigator in ARCHER will deliver the data on July 30, 2023.

The DR:EAM trial will evaluate topically delivered OTT166 eye drops in adult patients with moderately severe to severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) or mild proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) with minimal vision loss.

The company plans to share the first-in-human safety data from the Phase 2/3 SIGLEC trial evaluating intravitreal AVD-104.

The oral presentation, entitled “Population Pharmacokinetics and Safety of OPT-302, an anti-VEGF-C/-D ‘trap’ in Patients with Retinal Vascular Diseases” will take place on July 31, 2023 in Seattle, Washington.