Retinal Disease

Caeregen Therapeutics has been awarded a $1.4 million phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research grant for the development of CTR-107 for the treatment of retinal-related vision loss due to inherited and age-related diseases.

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — In this Healio Video Perspective from Kiawah Eye, Rishi P. Singh, MD, summarizes the content of his presentation on emerging therapies for retinal diseases.

Beacon Therapeutics has launched with the goal of developing a new generation of gene therapies for a range of retinal diseases, according to a press release.

DESTIN, Fla. — Hydroxychloroquine remains one of the most important drugs in lupus management and should be used as background therapy in nearly all cases, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East annual meeting.

I am a retina specialist, so I am obviously partial to retinal diseases. However, I think we have already made a lot of headway in developing machine learning models for identifying diseases in the retina, and we are on our way to do more.

Opus Genetics has acquired the rights to develop two preclinical-stage AAV-based gene therapy product candidates for inherited retinal diseases from Iveric Bio, according to a company press release.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from OSN New York Retina, Lejla Vajzovic, MD, FASRS, discusses the growing role of intravitreal and subretinal gene therapy in treating retinal diseases.

In this Healio video, Bisant A. Labib, OD, FAAO, Dipl(CEC), associate professor at Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University, discusses a symposium at Academy 2022 on the management of neuro-retinal diseases.