The data confirm that patients benefit from two years of treatment with Macugen for wet AMD. The second year data for Macugen will be presented by Anthony P. Adamis, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Eyetech Pharmaceuticals and Steven Schwartz, M.D., Chief, Retina Division, Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, at the Retina Subspecialty symposium of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Meeting on Friday, October 22, 2004 at 8:00 a.m. Central Time and 10:38 a.m. Central Time respectively.
Eyetech and Pfizer are partnering to develop and market Macugen, a treatment for neovascular or wet AMD, the leading cause of severe vision loss in patients older than 50 years of age in the developed world. Eyetech and Pfizer have filed an NDA for Macugen for neovascular AMD with the FDA. Macugen has been assigned priority review status and the PDUFA date is December 17, 2004.
"We are excited about the new data because they confirm that treatment with Macugen is effective in patients with neovascular AMD who are at risk of losing their vision," said David R. Guyer, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Eyetech Pharmaceuticals. "The two year data on Macugen demonstrate that longer term use may be beneficial for patients suffering from this chronic disease."
These data are from two, pivotal Phase II/III randomized, multi-center, double-masked studies in patients with all subtypes of neovascular AMD. 1,186 patients were initially randomized to receive one
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