Pharma

Gene Therapies Move One Step Closer to Reality

By Michelle Dalton | October 9, 2015

Positive top-line results from a pivotal Phase III study may result in the first gene therapy to win U.S. regulatory approval, and sent shares of…

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How Could the 21st Century Cures Act Aid Innovation?

By Rich Kirkner | August 21, 2015

There’s more to the 21st Century Cures Act, which passed the full House of Representatives with overwhelming bipartisan support, than $9 billion in new funding…

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Newer glaucoma medication classes about to be a reality?

By Tom Salemi | August 13, 2015

While our podcast this week examines the rise of Glaukos and the MIGs market, contributor Michelle Dalton presents a State of the Glaucoma Drugs address.…

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Q&A with Shire’s Robert Dempsey

Q&A with Shire’s Robert Dempsey

By Tom Salemi | August 6, 2015

Shire this week announced plans to acquire Foresight Biotherapeutics for $300 million. Robert Dempsey, Shire’s vice president and head of the company’s ophthalmic unit, kindly…

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Is pSivida on the verge of megastar status?

By Michelle Dalton | July 30, 2015

With three of the four sustained-release drug delivery products commercially available in the U.S. and Europe, pSivida just might prove Wall Street pundits correct and…

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First Lucentis Biosimilar Launches in India, but Path in US not so Clear

First Lucentis Biosimilar Launches in India, but Path in US not so Clear

By Rich Kirkner | July 22, 2015

The first biosimilar agent for Lucentis (ranibizumab, Genentech) has come to market in India with the launch of Intas Pharmaceuticals’’ Razumab in June. But whether…

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Allergan’s Oculeve Acquisition Bolsters Dry Eye, Medtech

Allergan’s Oculeve Acquisition Bolsters Dry Eye, Medtech

By Tom Salemi | July 9, 2015

The dry eye space has taken a few hits lately with disappointing clinical news on the biopharmaceutical front. But investors and entrepreneurs developing new treatments…

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Were Glaukos’ IPO Investors Irrationally or Rightly Exuberant?

By Larry Haimovitch | July 2, 2015

OIS Hot Shot Glaukos Corp. (NASDAQ—GKOS) raised over $100 million in an initial public offering (IPO) that highlighted extraordinary demand for ophthalmology’s minimally invasive glaucoma…

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Legislation Would Restore NEI/NIH Funding

By Rich Kirkner | June 25, 2015

The 21st Century Cures Act – which is receiving uncharacteristic bipartisan support – could restore many of the Ophthalmology-oriented research grant programs cut in recent…

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Investors Move Fast on AERI, AAVL Clinical News

By Rich Kirkner | June 22, 2015

Two presenters at the OIS saw their stock prices shoot in different directions following the release of news related to late-stage clinical trials. On Tuesday,…

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Lifitegrast Heads Up Promising Dry Eye Pipeline

By Tom Salemi | April 8, 2015

For more than a decade, there has only been one approved pharmacologic treatment for dry eye—Allergan’s Restasis (topical cyclosporine 0.05%). This in a market estimated…

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Cross-linking platform denied FDA approval—for now

By Tom Salemi | April 1, 2015

UPDATE 4/19/16: Avedro Finally Secures FDA Approval Read Full Story Click Here In late February, a joint panel of the Food and Drug Administration voted…

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