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Patients who are non-responders to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy may benefit from intravitreal dexamethasone.

Ramin Tadayoni, MD, PhD, considers factors for choosing the right metrics and avoiding bias in clinical trials to prevent waste.

Arshad M. Khanani, MD, MA, MASRS, shares long-term data outcomes of patients treated with the port delivery system for neovascular AMD.

Tarek S. Hassan, MD, FASRS, provides an update on glycoimmunology as a next-generation treatment paradigm for geographic atrophy.

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.

Margaret Chang, MD, MS, spoke with Modern Retina to give an update on avacincaptad pegol for geographic atrophy.

Ocular Therapeutix is scheduled to present trial results as well as participate in a panel discussion and sponsor a presentation at the 2023 Clinical Trials at the Summit Annual Meeting.

The European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE) 2023 Congress will convene from June 15 to 17 in Prague, Czech Republic.

SOE holds a special place in its heart for the up-and-coming young ophthalmologists and is providing them a number of opportunities to hone their skills and establish professional contacts at this meeting.

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.

Kiora Pharmaceuticals presented preliminary results for its investigational drug, KIO-301, a light-sensing small molecule designed to reactivate visual function of the eye in response to light.

The presentations highlighted the Clearside Biomedical’s efforts in suprachoroidal delivery of agents to the back of the eye.

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.

Lineage Cell Therapeutics Inc. presented results from the company's imaging analyses of structural changes and visual data from a Phase 1/2a clinical study of RG6501 (OpRegen), which is development as a potential treatment for geographic atrophy (GA).

Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc. presented key data at the ARVO 2023 annual meeting regarding their from its Phase 2b multicenter, randomized, double-masked, sham-controlled RESTORE clinical trial (NCT04945772) of MCO-010, which has received both orphan drug and fast track designations from the FDA.

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.

D-4517.2 is a novel precision nanomedicine that inhibits neovascularization by targeting activated microglia and hypertrophic retinal pigment cells, cells responsible for the increased vascularization associated with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME).

Belite Bio Inc. presented 18-month data from its ongoing two-year, open-label Phase 2 clinical study of LBS-008 (Tinlarebant), a novel oral therapy intended to reduce the accumulation of toxins in the eye that cause STGD1 and contribute to GA.

Genentech announced post-hoc data indicating treatment with faricimab-svoa (Vabysmo) led to greater and faster drying of retinal fluid with fewer injections for the treatments of wet AMD and DME, when compared to aflibercept.

VLTR-557, Valitor's long-acting anti-VEGF biologic in development for durable wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) treatment, showed that a single intravitreal (ITV) injection has potential to maintain clinical efficacy for more than six months.

Atsena Therapeutics announced positive 6-month safety and efficacy data from the ongoing Phase I/II clinical trial of ATSN-101, a gene therapy for the treatment of GUCY2D-associated Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA1).