Private firm City Therapeutics has announced a strategic collaboration with Bausch + Lomb to develop a new RNAi-based therapy for retinal diseases, including geographic atrophy (GA).
An advanced form of age-related macular degeneration, GA can cause irreversible vision loss and affects over one million people in the USA.
Bausch + Lomb chief executive Brent Saunders said City’s leadership was behind some of the biggest innovations in RNAi medicines to date, stating: “they have the right experience to help us successfully disrupt the GA treatment landscape.”
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