Janssen to Highlight Innovation in Retinal Pipeline at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2023 Annual Meeting

Click to Access Audio Press ReleaseRARITAN, N.J., April 21, 2023 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today that five company-sponsored presentations will be featured during the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2023 Annual Meeting in New Orleans from April 23-27, 2023. Janssen presentations will include updates from the Phase 1/2 MGT009 trial for investigational gene therapy botaretigene sparoparvovec (bota-vec, formerly AAV-RPGR) in patients with the inherited retinal disease (IRD) X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) associated with the retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator (RPGR) gene, and pooled safety analysis data from two Phase 1 trials of the investigational gene therapy JNJ-81201887 (JNJ-1887); one trial in patients with geographic atrophy (GA), a late-stage and severe form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and one trial in wet AMD (Abstracts #5446 and #732-C0314).1,2“People living with retinal diseases, including XLRP and geographic atrophy, are often faced with the inevitable fate of going blind. In this new era of innovation, we’re taking a cutting-edge approach to saving sight through groundbreaking technologies such as gene therapy, and we’re thrilled to showcase some of this research at this year’s ARVO annual meeting,” said James List, M.D., Ph.D., Global Therapeutic Area Head, whose team oversees a portfolio of programs including Retina at Janssen Research & Development, L...
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