Friday 14th June, SOE 2019 – The Robert Machemer Lecture with J Sebag

The RESTORE trial (NCT04945772) is a phase 2b randomized, sham-controlled, multi-centre, multi-dose, double-masked clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of MCO-010 optogenetic therapy in adults with retinitis pigmentosa. MCO-010 is an ambient-light activatable Multi-Characteristic Opsin (MCO) optogenetic therapy for vision restoration. It was a pleasure to speak with Prof. David Boyer (Retina Vitreous Associates Medical […]

Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD) caused by the loss of photoreceptors and characterized by retinal pigment deposits visible on fundus examination. Retinitis pigmentosa is the most common group of IRD. It was a pleasure to speak with Prof. David Boyer (Retina Vitreous Associates Medical Group, Los Angeles, CA, USA) around Retinitis Pigmentosa […]

It was a pleasure to catch up with Dr Carl Regillo (Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA) about new and emerging neovascular age-related macular degeneration treatments, including the new anti-vascular endothelial growth factor which appear to lead to better outcomes with durability, which is one of the biggest unmet needs in treatment of age-related macular […]