Thursday, September 10, 2009

Drug news: MarketScope's review of dry eye drugs in clinical trials

The August 12 issue of Dave Harmon's MarketScopes Ophthalmic Market Perspectives has a listing of dry eye products in FDA approval process as follows:

Alcon/Lantibio's VISMED (HA drop)- turned down by FDA in June, recommended additional Phase III trial. VisMed is on the market in Europe.

Alcon's VEXOL (non steroidal anti-inflammatory) - completed Phase II trial

ArGentis' ARG101/102 (testosterone topical cream) - completed Phase II trial

Inspire's PROLACRIA (secretagogue) - in Phase III (again)

Lantibio's MOLI1901 (secretagogue) - in Phase III

Sirion's ST609 (cyclosporine 0.1%) - in Phase III

Novagali's CYCLOKAT (cyclosporine with cationic emulsion) - completed Phase II trial

Novagali's CATIONORM (lubricating emulsion) - in Phase III

Ista's XIBROM (low dose steroid) - Phase IIB trial completed

Ista's Ecabet Sodium (secretagogue) - Phase II trial completed

EyeGate's EGP-437 (iontophoresis with dexamethasone) - Phase II trial completed

Otsuka/Acucela's Rebamipide (secretagogue) - in Phase III

1 comment:

Rosye said...

Thanks for this blog, Rebecca! I have high hopes in new treatments, expecting somewhere in the future something will come up to effectively treat our conditions. Your posts are really helpful to keep my hopes up! Keep going! :)