Gemini Therapeutics announced Oct. 5 that the company is reducing employee headcount by 20 percent and ceasing some research and non-clinical programs as part of a corporate restructuring effort to focus on a clinical trial for geographic atrophy.
Retinal tissue was regrown in three patients with age-related macular degeneration with geographic atrophy or dry (atrophic) AMD in a Phase I/IIa study conducted by Lineage Cell Therapeutics.
Gyroscope Therapeutics – with headquarters in Stevenage, UK – is merging with Ambler, Pennsylvania-based Orbit Biomedical. The companies will operate under the Gyroscope name and focus on gene therapies for diseases of the eye.
Pixium Vision announced that the bioelectronics company’s subretinal PRIMA system met the endpoints of the feasibility study, at interim 6 months follow-up after implantation and rehabilitation for patients with advanced dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).