Significant Visual Improvement Reported in Patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa in a cell therapy clinical trial

(c) ReNeuron

ReNeuron Group plc, a UK-based company focused on development of cell-based therapeutics, has announced encouraging results from an early stage trial of its cell therapy for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which, if approved, could be a competitor to Spark/Novartis’s Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec). Unlike the already-approved gene therapy Luxturna, ReNeuron’s cell-based therapy would not be limited to patients with a disease caused by a certain mutation.

LCA patients gain benefit from Spark Therapeutics' gene therapy treatment, Luxturna

(c) Mass Eye & Ear

With the approval of Spark Therapeutics' Luxturna for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), eye institutions around the US have started offering the treatment to their patients. In recent days, we have heard of this treatment being offered for the first time after the approval in Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston, followed the same day by the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. A few days later, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute completed its first case.