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According to a news release, Akari is targeting an Investigational New Drug application submission to the FDA in the first half of 2024

Saunders is returning to Bausch + Lomb after having served at the company as CEO from 2010 to 2013.

The trial could prove to be a key development in the treatment of people with the rare inherited condition RP, which currently has no approved cure or standard treatment.

If approved by the FDA later this year, phentolamine ophthalmic solution 0.75% could be the only commercially available eye drop for the reversal of dilation. It is being developed for reversal of pharmacologically-induced mydriasis, presbyopia, and dim light vision disturbances under the 505(b)(2) pathway.

The findings from a National Institutes of Health-supported clinical trial may help guide the management of diabetic eye disease.

Retina specialists help educate the public to take steps to protect their vision during AMD Awareness Month.

Rishi Singh, MD, presented data from the Phase 3 DERBY and OAKS clinical trials for geographic atrophy at the 2023 Angiogenesis, Exudation, and Degeneration conference.

In a presentation at the Angiogenesis, Exudation, and Degeneration 2023 conference, Justis Ehlers, MD, presented "Ellipsoid Zone Integrity in Dry AMD: An Imaging Biomarker for Progression Risk and Clinical Trial Endpoint.”

According to Regeneron, aflibercept injection is now approved to treat five retinal conditions caused by ocular angiogenesis.

According to investigators, the new discovery enhances our understanding of the previously unknown function of genomic regions outside the genes.

The Phase 2 SPECTRA clinical trial will assess 4D-150 in patients with DME.

The vision care company is joining forces with the global nonprofit to fight avoidable blindness around the world.

According to the company, ONL1204 is a first-in-class small molecule Fas inhibitor with a mechanism of action designed to provide neuroprotection for retinal cells.

According to a news release from Bausch + Lomb and biomedical laser company Modulight announced that the FDA has approved the ML6710i photodynamic laser for equivalent use with Visudyne.

According to a news release, the CDC is urging that clinicians and patients immediately discontinue the use of EzriCare Artificial Tears until the epidemiological investigation and laboratory analyses are complete.

According to the company, the approval allows Eyenuk’s EyeArt AI eye screening system, already approved for detection of diabetic retinopathy, to aid millions of additional patients at risk for vision loss.

According to the company, it is planning an end-of-phase 2 meeting with the FDA to discuss the results.

The PRPH2 and Associated Retinal Diseases Workshop is designed to bring together leading experts from academia and industry, to discuss openly, and in detail, what is known about PRPH2 disease pathology, disease models, clinical characteristics, and therapeutic approaches.

A University of Houston researcher has been awarded a $1.6 million grant to help restore vision loss in patients with the rare disease that causes a progressive loss of vision, prompting retinitis pigmentosa.

A team of researchers have found that STOC tomography enables unprecedented views of eye structure.

The United States Department of Justice originally filed the lawsuit in December 2021 on behalf of an elderly quadriplegic patient, alleging that Tempe, Arizona-based Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center was requiring patients with mobility disabilities to hire third-party medical transport and transfer assistance for outpatient surgical procedures. American Vision Partners was named as a codefendant.

Researchers used obesity as a model to accelerate and exaggerate the stressors experienced by the body throughout life.

As a therapy for vision impairment resulting from inherited retinal degeneration, or IRD, the mRNA would instruct photoreceptor cells – faulty because of a genetic mutation – to manufacture the proteins needed for sight.

Researchers discovered that all patients had similar single surgery success rates but that minority patients had significantly worse vision outcomes and were more likely to have multiple retinal breaks.

Investigators coaxed human skin cells reprogrammed to act as stem cells to develop into layers of several types of retinal cells that sense light and ultimately transmit what we see to the brain.

To advance the company’s ability to anticipate on increasing patients’ needs and to pursue long-term growth plans in both fields of expertise, the company decided to spin out its retina division.

FT-001 is administered by a one-time injection into the subretinal space of the eye that delivers a functional copy of the human RPE65 gene to the nuclei of the patient’s retinal cells.

The investment supports the clinical development of two novel programs, both with the aim of being protective against vision loss.

The companies noted that the molecules selected are potent small molecules that work against well-validated therapeutic targets in retinal disease management, and that are designed to enable extended durability in the suprachoroidal space.