Sydney M Crago

At the 2023 American Society of Retina Specialists meeting in Seattle, Washington, we asked some of the presenters, "What research here do you find exciting or interesting?" Here's what Diana Do, MD, Shawn Kavoussi, MD, and Durga Borkar, MD, MMCi had to say!

At the 2023 American Society of Retina Specialists meeting in Seattle, Washington, we asked some of the presenters, "What research here do you find exciting or interesting?" Here's what Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD, Veena Raiji, MD, and Dante Pieramici, MD had to say!

"What research at the 2023 ASRS meeting do you find exciting or interesting?" Here's what Aaron Lee, MD, Megan Baldwin, PhD, and Carl Danzig, MD had to say!

Megan Baldwin, PhD, CEO and managing director of Opthea Limited, spoke with our team about the company's clinical trial drug OPT-302 (sozinibercept) at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

At the 2023 ASRS annual meeting, Nancy Lurker, Executive Vice-Chair of the Board of EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, discussed the subgroup analyses of the Phase 1 DAVIO Trial of EYP-1901.

At the 2023 ASRS annual meeting, Aleksandra Rachiskaya, MD, spoke about time to fluid control with faricimab arms complete compared to aflibercept in recent studies.

At the 2023 ASRS annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD, shared the latest information on the GALE extension study.

Durga Borkar, MD, MMCi, discussed the FARETINA-DME study during the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington.

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

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.

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.

Michael Ip, MD, spoke with our team at the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington. He noted presentations and trends that are key at this event and why they're vital to a modern view of ophthalmology.

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

Carl Danzig, MD, shared the exciting results of the GATHER 1 and GATHER 2 clinical trials for avacincaptad pegol for the treatment of geographic atrophy at the 2023 ASRS meeting.

At the 2023 ASRS meeting in Seattle, Washington, Aaron Lee, MD, shared how new techniques are expanding the options for deep learning in ophthalmology.

Richard B. Rosen, MD, shared insights from his presentation from ASRS 2023 on "New 'MacGyver-inspired' endolaser option for chandelier-assisted scleral buckles" with Sheryl Stevenson, our Group Editorial Director.

Cindy Cai, MD, shared insights from her presentation from ASRS 2023, "Health disparities in lapses in diabetic retinopathy care," with Sheryl Stevenson, our Group Editorial Director.

The presenter, Jeffrey S. Heier, MD, Director of the Retina Service and Retina Research, Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, and an investigator in ARCHER will deliver the data on July 30, 2023.

The company plans to share the first-in-human safety data from the Phase 2/3 SIGLEC trial evaluating intravitreal AVD-104.

The oral presentation, entitled “Population Pharmacokinetics and Safety of OPT-302, an anti-VEGF-C/-D ‘trap’ in Patients with Retinal Vascular Diseases” will take place on 31 July, 2023 in Seattle, Washington.

The drug, known as XIPERE in the US, is used to treat uvietic macular edema and goes by the name Arcatus when licensed by Clearside Biomedical’s partner in China, Arctic Vision.

This trial is testing tinlarebant, a novel oral therapy which is intended to reduce the accumulation of toxins in the eye that cause STGD1 and contribute to geographic atrophy (GA).

The fellowship is a one-year program that will provide comprehensive training to residency graduates in the latest advancements in ophthalmology, including diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, surgical procedures and clinical research.

The company announced the Complete Response Letter from the FDA for the Biologics License Application for aflibercept 8 mg is “solely due to an ongoing review of inspection findings at a third-party filler.”