Saliogen Therapeutics Inc. has nominated a development candidate, SGT-1001, for the treatment of Stargardt disease. SGT-1001 is being developed as a one-time, nonviral therapy to slow or stop the progressive loss of central vision in people with Stargardt disease, regardless of the type of mutation.
Inmed Pharmaceuticals Inc. has released new preclinical data on INM-089 further demonstrating promising pharmacological effects targeting dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). INM-089 is a proprietary small-molecule compound acting as a preferential signaling ligand of cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors.
On the heels of a $4.6 million series A round in December 2023, cell therapy company Rxcell Inc. is planning to raise another $15 million in 2024 to take its iPSC-derived photoreceptors to the clinic for retinitis pigmentosa and other degenerative diseases of the retina.
On the heels of a $4.6 million series A round in December 2023, cell therapy company Rxcell Inc. is planning to raise another $15 million in 2024 to take its iPSC-derived photoreceptors to the clinic for retinitis pigmentosa and other degenerative diseases of the retina.
With credit card fees taking a sizable bite of their billings, many U.S. health care providers are fighting back by offering patients cash discounts. But when a drug company covers card processing fees for its distributors to pass on to their provider clients so they can pay for so-called “buy-and-bill” Medicare Part B drugs with a credit card at cash prices, it’s fraud if those concessions aren’t figured into the drug’s average sales price – at least that’s what the U.S. Department of Justice is claiming in a complaint it released April 10 against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.
On the heels of a $4.6 million series A round in December 2023, cell therapy company Rxcell Inc. is planning to raise another $15 million in 2024 to take its iPSC-derived photoreceptors to the clinic for retinitis pigmentosa and other degenerative diseases of the retina.
Richmond Hill, N.Y.-based Ihealthscreen Inc. reported the granting of a patent from the USPTO for automated systems for predicting and detecting the onset of glaucoma.
Less than two weeks after going public by way of the merger with Graphite Bio Inc., Lenz Therapeutics Inc. unveiled positive top-line data from its pair of phase III Clarity studies testing two formulations of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor agonist aceclidine, LNZ-100 and LNZ-101, for presbyopia.
Researchers from Universita degli Studi di Firenze (University of Florence) and Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse (IBBR) published the discovery of new carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitors to be developed as antiglaucoma agents.
Real life economics, not functionality, is the standard for determining a relevant antitrust market for distinct versions of a prescription drug, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said as it schooled a lower court and handed Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. a win in its ongoing litigation with Novartis AG and Vetter Pharma International GmbH over the prefilled syringe market for eye drugs Eylea (aflibercept) and Lucentis (ranibizumab).
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