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Corneal ectatic disorders, such as keratoconus, progressively weaken corneal integrity, leading to thinning, irregular astigmatism and visual deterioration.1 Typically progressive in nature, these ectasias result in increasingly thinner corneas, causing the cornea to protrude forward into a cone shape. This leads to increasing amounts of myopia and astigmatism – both regular and irregular – as the disease […]

Gene Signal International SA

Gene Signal International SA
Phone: 004-121-804-6164
Fax: 004-179-697-1300
Web Address: www.genesignal.com

Anti-VEGFs are today’s standard of care for the treatment of pathological ocular neovascularisation. Because they require intravitreal injections every 1-3 months however, additional needleless therapies are needed. Gene Signal may have such a drug. Aganirsen is an antisense DNA oligonucleotide that has demonstrated effectiveness in inhibiting neovascularisation topically (front of the eye) and in reaching and acting on the retina (back of the eye). Following a clean phase I , Aganirsen has demonstrated its efficacy in a phase II study of corneal neovascularisation , and is now in phase III for the same indication.

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