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Exonate announces collaboration to develop retinal disease treatment

January 28, 2020

Exonate announced a collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceuticals to develop new eye drops to treat retinal vascular diseases.

This program may improve treatment for patients with retinal vascular diseases and quality of life of those with vision loss, the company said in a press release.

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VIDEO: AI-guided image analysis drives progress in ophthalmology

January 28, 2020

TREVISO, Italy — Why are reading centers, images and image analysis so important in ophthalmology? At the Retina 2020: New Trends meeting, Tunde Peto, MD…

Ocumension to develop, commercialize Dexycu in greater China region

January 28, 2020

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals and Ocumension Therapeutics have signed an exclusive license agreement for the development and commercialization of Dexycu in mainland China…

$Genetic testing may improve patient screening for refractive surgery$

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Genetic testing may improve patient screening for refractive surgery

January 27, 2020

KOLOA, Hawaii — Genetic testing can identify loci and genes for inherited eye diseases and can help improve screening processes to identify patients who are good…

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Zimura shows promise in treatment of geographic atrophy in AMD

January 27, 2020

Complement C5 is a viable target for inhibition to potentially prevent or slow retinal pigment epithelial cell death in patients with geographic atrophy, according to…

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