Novartis has filed its ophthalmology drug brolucizumab with the US regulator, a potentially strong competitor in the tough market for drugs for the degenerative eye condition wet AMD.
Novartis’ long-awaited separation from its eye care division Alcon completed on schedule today, allowing it to focus its energies on medicinal products.
Biogen has agreed to buy UK-based gene therapy biotech Nightstar, which focuses on using modified viruses as therapies for inherited retinal disorders, in a deal worth $800 million.
Verily and Google have developed a machine learning algorithm that can automatically detect diabetes-related eye disease, which could be used to take pressure off services in countries wher
UK-based biotech ReNeuron has announced encouraging results from an early stage trial of its cell therapy for the rare blindness-causing disease, retinitis pigmentosa (RP).