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Centre for Eye Research Australia
Australia’s first clinical trials of an investigational gene therapy to treat dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have begun at the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA).
CERA’s Principal Investigator of Retinal Gene Therapy Research and vitreoretinal surgeon Dr Tom Edwards performed the first surgeries to administer the investigational gene therapy to patients at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne.
This investigational gene therapy, being developed by Gyroscope Therapeutics Limited, is being studied in two studies evaluating its safety and effectiveness for the treatment of geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to AMD.