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Acucela Highlights Data to Be Presented at ARVO

Published in Clinical Trials Week, May 11th, 2009

Acucela announced it will present new data on ACU-4429, an investigational therapy for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), at the 2009 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from May 3 to May 7, 2009.

Data will be presented on the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of ACU-4429, a single-dose daily oral treatment for dry AMD, the most common form of the disease. All forms (wet and dry) of age-related macular degeneration affect more than 1.75 million people in the United States and are expected to increase to almost 3 million by 20201. Currently, there is no approved medicinal therapeutic...

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