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A panel of retina specialists review new and emerging treatments in neovascular AMD and DME, highlighting high-dose aflibercept and KSI-301. Which emerging treatments are you most interested in?

A panel of retina experts discussed the challenges presented in the management of DME. Which do you think is the biggest of these challenges?

A panel of retina specialists weighed in on the dosing intervals when using of faricimab for the treatment of neovascular AMD in the clinical practice setting. Do you agree with them?

The podcast by Cognition Therapeutics features a discussion with retinal specialists.

A new survey shows that 95% of adults at risk for certain retinal diseases know a little or nothing about them. Allen hopes her story will help raise awareness and encourage those at risk to regularly prioritize their eye health.

The experimental gene therapy was administered as a treatment in part of a randomized, partially masked, controlled, phase 3 clinical study evaluating the efficacy and safety of an experimental therapy, ABBV-RGX-314, for wet AMD.

According to the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the $12.4 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine is the latest round of support for USC researcher Mark Humayun and a milestone in the development of a stem cell patch to treat advanced dry age-related macular degeneration.

According to Outlook Therapeutics, it is working with the FDA to address the agency’s issues.

Researchers successfully transplanted human microglia cells into a mouse retina to create a model that could be used to test new treatments for incurable eye diseases.

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).

The study met its primary efficacy endpoint for the neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) treatment.

According to Regeneron, visual gains and safety of aflibercept 8 mg remained consistent with the established profile of aflibercept 2 mg injection.

According to the company, the solution slowed the loss of photoreceptors and disease progression as early as six months.

In the study, researchers found that nearly one-quarter of anti-VEGF injections were received at least 1 week later than intended.

During presentations at the ASRS 41st Annual Meeting in Seattle, Apellis noted that there was no indication that drug product or manufacturing issues contributed to rare events of retinal vasculitis, and no events were reported in clinical trials.

RGX-314, an investigational formulation being developed in collaboration with AbbVie, may be a potential one-time treatment for nAMD, diabetic retinopathy, and other chronic retinal conditions.

With this funding, the DISCOVER study will evaluate the safety and tolerability of three doses of AXT107 in patients with wet AMD.

The results of this study demonstrated the good safety and tolerability of HLX04-O.

Going forward, sozinibercept will be the official moniker of OPT-302, which holds fast track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Clearside Biomedical developing a long-acting therapy for the treatment of retinal diseases, including wet AMD.

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.

According to 4DMT, the Dose Expansion stage of the PRISM trial is a multicenter, randomized study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of 4D-150 at two different dose levels.

R100 is an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector invented by 4DMT for intravitreal delivery.

Researchers found that better general health and ability to drive were each separately associated with significantly lower risk of death among individuals with AMD.

While these injections are the standard treatment for this patient population, the investigators found a subgroup of patients who had severe visual loss between 2 consecutive intravitreal injections.

This investigational new drug application was cleared for the company’s phase I/II clinical trial.

The study demonstrated a meaningful increase in the long chain and very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids whose deficit is associated with dry AMD.

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.”

The study will include 100 patients with the aim of determining effective and ineffective standards of eye injections for AMD to better personalize future medical evaluations.

Real-world patients often fail to achieve and retain the visual acuity results observed in clinical trials for anti–VEGF-A therapy. Broader therapeutic inhibition of additional angiogenic factors VEGF-C and VEGF-D could change that.