Retina/Vitreous News

AEYE Health has received the first-ever FDA clearance for a fully autonomous AI that can diagnose referable diabetic retinopathy using retinal images taken by a handheld camera, according to a company-issued press release.

Researchers reported an association between the severity of internal carotid artery stenosis and retinal health in proliferative diabetic retinopathy, highlighting the importance of carotid artery evaluations in these patients.

Ocugen has announced that dosing is complete in the second cohort of its phase 1/2 ArMaDa clinical trial to assess the safety of OCU410, a modifier gene therapy candidate for geographic atrophy.

RevOpsis Therapeutics closed its first seed funding round and raised $16.5 million to advance RO-104, its lead candidate for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

Catch up on the most popular videos from Eyecelerator@ASCRS as Healio’s coverage of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting continues.

Researchers at NIH have developed an AI-assisted strategy that can improve cellular contrast of retinal images captured via OCT while reducing image acquisition and processing time by nearly 100-fold.

Oral minocycline was not associated with a reduction in geographic atrophy enlargement over 24 months vs. a 9-month run-in period among patients with age-related macular degeneration, according to a study in JAMA Ophthalmology.

BOSTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@ASCRS, Richard Small, CEO of Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, gives an update on encapsulated cell therapy for the extended treatment of retinal diseases.

Subretinal delivery of ABBV-RGX-314 gene therapy demonstrated safety and sustained anti-VEGF protein expression at higher doses in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration, according to a study.

BOSTON — Stem cell therapies for retinal diseases come with advantages and disadvantages, according to a speaker at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.