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The submission for bevacizumab gamma (ONS-5010/LYTENAVA) follows a positive opinion from the CHMP in March.

This year at ARVO, Emily Chew, MD, was awarded the Proctor Award Lecture. She spoke with the Eye Care Network about this lecture and what the award meant to her.

This year at ARVO, Anand Swaroop, PhD, was awarded the Friedenwald Award Lecture 2024. He spoke with the Eye Care Network about this lecture and what the award meant to him.

While it fell short of the primary endpoint of improvement of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) of at least 2 Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Scale (DRSS) levels as of week 36, DURAVYU did demonstrate stable or improved disease severity with reduced rates of NPDR in 9 months.

Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear led a phase 1/2 trial, which included 14 participants, that found the experimental treatment was safe and efficacious.

At this year's ARVO meeting in Seattle, Washington, the Eye Care Network spoke with Noel Brennan, MScOptom, PhD. The clinical research fellow at Johnson and Johnson shared highlights from his presentation on myopia control and predictive modeling.

David Eichenbaum, MD, spoke with Modern Retina about the phase 3 trial of sozinibercept at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting.

Modern Retina spoke with Paulo-Eduardo Stanga, MD, from The Retina Clinic London, London, United Kingdom at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting.

Christine Kay, MD, spoke with Modern Retina to share insights from her presentation on longitudinal BCVA and safety analysis of mutation-agnostic MCO-010 optogenetic therapy For retinitis pigmentosa

David Almeida, MD, PhD, MBA, presented on gene therapy associated uveitis at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

At this year's ARVO meeting, the Eye Care Network spoke with Daniel Saben PhD, who is being awarded the Cogan Lecture at this year's event.

Sunir Garg, MD, FACS, shares strategies to minimize pain with intravitreal injections.

Modern Retina spoke with Veeral Sheth, MD, MBA, FASRS, FACS, at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting about the PRISM study, 4DMT's gene therapy trial for wet AMD.

Michael A. Singer, MD, shares details about the an IRIS database look at Triamcinolone Acetonide.

Elias Kahan speaks about his ARVO poster, "Contact specular microscopy reliably images the same location of the corneal epithelium."

At this year's ARVO meeting, Paul Kayne, PhD, gave insight on his paper titled "Mapping the melanocortin receptors in the human eye."

At this year's ARVO meeting, Deborah A Ferrington, MD, PhD, presented "Genotype-specific differences in mitochondrial function specific to the CFH Y402H risk allele associated with AMD."

In a retrospective interventional cohort study, the investigators analyzed the outcomes of 80 patients with submacular hemorrhages who were treated with subretinal aflibercept or intravitreal aflibercept.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Allen Ho, MD, presented a paper on presenting a paper on the 12 month results of a mutation agnostic optogenetic program for patients with severe vision loss from retinitis pigmentosa.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Dolly Chang, MD, PhD, presented data on the early fluid reduction in patients with diabetic macular edema, and how that correlates with 1-year outcome with a deep learning-based retina segmentation tool using the Phase 2 BOULEVARD study.

Several presentations at Retina World Congress 2024 highlight the importance of diversity equity and inclusion in the retina field.

Several companies working in the retina space have shared that they plan to release data at this year’s meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

At this year's ARVO meeting, SriniVas R Sadda, MD, presented "Post Hoc Analysis of a Phase 3 Trial on SB15 (Proposed Aflibercept Biosimilar): Assessment on Pre-to-Post Switching Efficacy and Safety in Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration."

An analysis showed an association between patients who previously had undergone intravitreal injections and cataract surgery and a higher risk of the development of a non-clearing vitreous hemorrhage, retinal detachment, retinal tear, and glaucoma surgery.

Voretigene neparvovec (Luxturna, Spark Therapeutics, Inc.) was shown to be safe and effective in real-world settings.

Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal-dominant, fully-penetrant, neurodegenerative disease that most commonly affects adults during middle age.

Tylectomy indicates surgical resection of retinoblastomas via pars plana vitrectomy with intraoperative chemotherapy infusion.

John Sheppard, MD, MSc, FACs, sat down to discuss post-hoc analysis of 2 FDA registration trials for perfluorohexyloctane, GOBI and MOJAVE, at this year's ARVO meeting held in Seattle, Washington, from May 5 to May 9.