Geographic Atrophy

City Therapeutics will develop a novel RNAi clinical candidate toward a specific disease target for intravitreal administration.

The application was refiled following a December 20, 2024, meeting between the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Astellas.

The financing will go toward its ongoing phase 2b/3 and planned pivotal phase 3 clinical trial for AVD-104.

The potential gene therapy candidate is being evaluated for geographic atrophy.

The trial is evaluating GAL-101 eye drops in patients with geographic atrophy, an advanced form of dry AMD.

A global survey explores the impact of geographic atrophy (GA) on quality of life, revealing similar challenges for individuals with unilateral and bilateral GA.

Tenpoint Therapeutics and Visus Therapeutics have merged to focus on aging-related ocular conditions, with key products including BRIMOCHOL PF for presbyopia and therapies for cataracts and geographic atrophy.

The annual meeting brought announcements and insights from companies in the retina care space.

The organization will provide resources for spreading awareness and educating patients and care givers.

Patients treated with investigational oral therapy gildeuretinol (ALK-001) showed a statistically significant reduction in the GA lesion growth rate.

Key findings include reduced lesion growth, retinal tissue preservation, and improved visual function, demonstrating significant potential for the treatment option.

The FDA comments in the CRL relate to proposed labelling language, not safety, Astellas said in a press release.

In a recent Modern Retina case-based discussion, Ferhina S. Ali, MD, MPH, discussed how to effectively manage geographic atrophy (GA).

This merger creates an innovative biotechnology company with a broader focus in the advancement of multiple disease therapies.

Srinivas R. Sadda, MD, described the advantages and disadvantages of the various imaging technologies used to evaluate GA at the AAO 2024 conference.

PST-611 is a first in class non-viral vectorized therapy for the treatment of dry AMD/GA coding for human transferrin.

The European Association for Vision and Eye Research 27th EVER Congress will be held in Valencia, Spain, November 3 – 5, 2024.

The investigators undertook a study in which they retrospectively evaluated the presence and amount of small HRF in the eyes of patients with different macular atrophic phenotypes.

David Eichenbaum, MD, spoke with Modern Retina to provide and overview on his presentation at ASRS 2024 and the current state of geographic atrophy treatment.

Inflammasome Therapeutics has completed enrollment of a Phase I PK/Safety study of its new brain- and retina-penetrant drug, K9.

Oral gildeuretinol demonstrated a clinically meaningful reduction in the GA lesion growth rate at 24 months in the SAGA study.

BI 771716, with technology licensed from CDR-Life, is a highly specific antibody fragment, possibly enabling an optimized penetration through all retinal layers to the most critical target site driving GA disease pathology.

PAS-nomacopan is a long-acting bispecific inhibitor of C5 and leukotriene B4 for intravitreal treatment of geographic atrophy (GA).

According to the company, additional data from its Phase 2 ARCHER trial showed both vision protection in standard and low light conditions, and structural protection in regions of the eye key for visual acuity.

Eleonora Lad, MD, PhD, spoke about her presentation, "Multiwavelength photobiomodulation significantly reduces risk for vision loss and onset of geographic atrophy in dry age-related macular degeneration" at this year's American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.

According to the company, OCU410 utilizes an adeno-associated virus platform for the retinal delivery of the RORA gene.

Riaz Qureshi, PhD, explains the effects of spin sneaking into systematic reviews and ways the scientific community can better identify it to improve the validity.