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Carl Regillo, MD, FACS, FASRS, spoke with our team following the annual ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington to share insights from his presentation titled, "Modulation of Macrophages and Complement Dysfunction in Non-exudative AMD utilizing novel, sialic-acid coated nanoparticles." Aviceda Therapeutics is unlocking the proteogenomic code of AMD to target proteins and pathways linked to macular degeneration.

Oluwatosin U. Smith, MD, shares why she is excited for the conference and why it is relevant for today’s ophthalmologists and optometrists.

Theodore Leng, MD, sat down with David Hutton of Ophthalmology Times®, to discuss his ASRS presentation on how the real-world use of faricimab.

David Lally, MD, spoke with our team about the ZETA-1 phase 2 trial efficacy results for APX3330, a novel, oral ref-1 inhibitor for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Veena Raiji, MD, MPH, spoke with our team about long-term outcomes of eyes requiring IOP-lowering medication in the PALADIN trial at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASRS, spoke with our team about clinical characteristics of macular holes that close without surgery at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Michael Singer, MD, spoke with our team about the Starlight Study, an optogenetic study looking at patients who had Stargardt's disease at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting. At the meeting, Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc presented key results from its STARLIGHT Phase 2 clinical trial.

Aleksandra Rachiskaya, MD, spoke with our team about time to fluid control with faricimab arms complete compared to aflibercept at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Nancy Lurker, spoke with our team about the subgroup analyses of the Phase 1 DAVIO Trial of EYP-1901 at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Paul Hahn, MD, PhD, spoke with our team about comparing the relative efficacy of pegcetacoplan versus avacincaptad pegol in patients with geographic atrophy at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Russ Trenary, President and CEO at Outlook Therapeutics spoke with our team to share information on the company's work toward FDA approval for Bevacizumab at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Tarek Hassan, MD, spoke with our team about a novel glyco-mimetic nanoparticle for the treatment of geographic atrophy at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD, spoke with our team to share information on the GALE extension study at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASRS, spoke with our team to share information on his presentation on the treatment of progressively symptomatic retinal detachments associated to retinoschisis cases at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Dante Pieramici, MD, spoke with our team to share information on OPT-302, or sozinibercept, for the treatment of neovascular AMD and other retinal vascular diseases at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

In the study, researchers found that nearly one-quarter of anti-VEGF injections were received at least 1 week later than intended.

Our team spoke with Shawn Kavoussi, MD, at the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington about his research on using infrared video for vitreous opacities and comparing postoperative reduction in vitreous opacity scores using infrared video with the Heidelberg spectralis unit.

Matthew R. Starr, MD, discusses how secondary lens techniques have changed over time.

At the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington, Durga Borkar, MD, MMCi, joined our team to discuss the FARETINA-DME study.

Richard B Rosen, MD, who is presenting New 'MacGyver-Inspired' Endolaser Option for Chandelier-Assisted Scleral Buckles at the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington spoke with our team about this research.

Samsung Bioepsis' SB15 was comparable to Eylea (aflibercept) in a 56-week randomized clinical trial that included a rerandomization at 32 weeks. The rerandomization resulted in 111 study volunteers switching from Eylea to the biosimilar for the last part of the study.

The research saw that new-onset full-thickness macular holes (FTMHs), especially those resulting from blunt ocular trauma, might close spontaneously without the need for a surgical intervention.

In presentations at the American Society of Retina Specialists 41st Annual Meeting in Seattle, additional analyses support consistent protection from vision loss.

Cindy Cai, MD, who is presenting Health disparities in lapses in diabetic retinopathy care at the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington spoke with our team about this presentation.

During presentations at the American Society for Retina Specialists 41st Annual Meeting in Seattle, the company noted that there was no indication that drug product or manufacturing issues contributed to rare events of retinal vasculitis.

Our team spoke with Michael Ip, MD, to get his perspective on the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington and why he thinks these are the most valuable topics to understand and review for retina specialists.

At the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington, Diana Do, MD joined our team to discuss the 2-year data on the PHOTON study, which involved 8 milligrams of aflibercept for diabetic macular edema.

This study of patients was designed to identify unexpected adverse effects of these new pharmacologic therapies that may not have been observed or anticipated during clinical research trials. The studied drugs were biosimilars to the reference drug ranibizumab.

6-Month results underscore treatment safety with suprachoroidally injected ABBV-RGX-314 for nAMD