Viatris Inc. has announced FDA clearance of its IND application for MR-146, an Enriched Tear Film (ETF) AAV gene therapy candidate for the treatment of neurotrophic keratopathy. The company plans to initiate a phase I/II trial in patients with neurotrophic keratopathy in the first half of next year.
Two large deals and an acquisition, totaling about $4.64 billion in all, are helping wrap up what’s turning out to be a strong year. Through the first 11 months of 2025, biopharma dealmaking was robust with a collective value of $261.14 billion, the highest January through November total of the past seven years and well above 2024’s $201.35 billion. These three December deals helped revive the surge in dealmaking that had cooled in November.
Attention has turned to the regulatory path worldwide after Belite Bio Inc. unveiled positive top-line data from the phase III Dragon study with oral, daily tinlarebant in Stargardt disease type 1, the most common form of the rare affliction.
Coave Therapeutics SA has nominated a lead gene therapy program, CoTx-101, for the treatment of retinal vascular diseases, such as wet age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema.
Innovstone Therapeutics Ltd. has disclosed integrin αLβ2 (LFA-1)/ICAM-1 interaction inhibitors and/or RASP-trapping agents reported to be useful for the treatment of dry eye syndrome.
Researchers at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg generated retinal pigment epithelial cell lines lacking three RPGR isoforms and examined whether they showed the defects in ciliary structure and actin turnover known to occur in retinitis pigmentosa.
University of Eastern Finland has synthesized carbonic anhydrase II (CA2) inhibitors and melanin ligands. As such, they are described as potentially useful for the treatment of glaucoma, macular edema and retinal degeneration.
Shenzhen Newrosetta Biosciences Co. Ltd. has described deuterated derivatives of AF-DX 116 acting as muscarinic M2 receptor antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of myopia.
Aniridia-associated keratopathy (AAK) is a rare genetic eye condition caused by PAX6 haploinsufficiency, which leads to chronic inflammation, neovascularization and vision loss. Currently, there are limited therapeutic options for the treatment of AAK, which has been linked to limbal stem cell deficiency.
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