Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Rishi P. Singh, MD, talked about gene therapy studies for neovascular age-related macular degeneration presented at the ASRS meeting in a video interview with Healio.

Rishi P. Singh, MD, staff surgeon at Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, and associate professor of ophthalmology at Lerner College of Medicine, discussed highlights in wet age-related macular degeneration from the ASRS meeting.

A home-based OCT imaging study in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration demonstrated ease of use and good image quality, according to a press release from Notal Vision.

Applications for Beovu to treat diabetic macular edema have been accepted in the United States, Europe and Japan, according to a press release from Novartis.

In this video from the Retina Society meeting, Charles Wykoff, MD, PhD, discusses results from the DERBY and OAKS trials investigating pegcetacoplan in patients with geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

Patients with diabetic macular edema or wet age-related macular degeneration who received a single injection of UBX1325 demonstrated “strong and sustained responses” at 12 weeks, according to a press release from Unity Biotechnology.

Full-year results from a pivotal phase 3 trial confirm previously reported data demonstrating ONS-5010 was well tolerated and had no unanticipated safety signals, according to a press release from Outlook Therapeutics.

A group of retina specialists developed and published a new consensus-based classification system for nonadherence and nonpersistence to anti-VEGF therapies in neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

The FDA has approved Byooviz as a biosimilar to Lucentis for the treatment of some retinal diseases and conditions, including wet age-related macular degeneration, according to a press release from Samsung Bioepis and Biogen.

Results at 48 weeks in the TENAYA and LUCERNE phase 3 trials showed positive outcomes of faricimab for neovascular age-related macular degeneration.