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Ocugen is utilising the modifier gene therapy technology approach to treat retinal diseases. The therapy can be used to treat both inherited disorders, such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), Leber congenital amaurosis, and Stargardt disease, but also multifactorial diseases like dry age-related macular degeneration and angiographic atrophy.



The company’s lead candidate in modifier gene therapy, OCU400, is in Phase III trials for treatment of RP and Phase I/II for treatment of Leber congenital amaurosis.

In this podcast, recorded ahead of International Women’s Day, Biogen’s Dr Kylie Bromley reflects on her career in the pharmaceutical sector and shares valuable insight into how the industry can work together to build greater gender equality and diversity.

In this podcast, Manu Kittanakere, Associate Director of Packaging Engineering at Gilead discusses the future of pharmaceutical packaging, including the growing importance of AI, automation and sustainability in packaging engineering.

In this episode, Dr Salim Benkhalifa, Medical Affairs Lead, Celltrion Healthcare France reflects on biosimilars development, highlighting the three core challenges facing the sector and how they might be overcome.

In this podcast, Paul Nioi, Vice President of Discovery and Translational Research at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals discusses the clinical development and manufacturing of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics.



RNA interference (RNAi) medicines that can ‘silence’ or turn off the production of specific genes that cause or contribute to disease, are one of the exciting emerging modalities in drug development today.



In this episode, EPR Editor Caroline Peachey catches up with Dr Paul Nioi, Vice President of Discovery and Translational Research at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to explore clinical development and manufacturing of RNAi medicines for large patient populations.

In this podcast, Allison Scott, Lynn Johnson and Miriam Guest of the Modern Microbial Methods Collaboration discuss how cross-industry collaboration through working groups can support adoption of modern microbial methods.