{"id":4659,"date":"2025-03-25T22:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:47:16","slug":"seeing-a-better-way-for-eye-drug-rd-character-bio-lands-93m-for-two-trials-in-dry-amd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=4659","title":{"rendered":"Seeing a Better Way for Eye Drug R&amp;D, Character Bio Lands $93M for Two Trials in Dry AMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/03\/age-related-macular-degeneration-dry-amd-drug-character-biosciences-startup\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apellis Pharmaceuticals and Astellas Pharma have the first two FDA-approved therapies for geographic atrophy, but Character Biosciences claims its approach could be best in class for treating this advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration. The biotech\u2019s Series B round will finance clinical tests of two programs, each addressing a different stage of the disease. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/03\/age-related-macular-degeneration-dry-amd-drug-character-biosciences-startup\/\">Seeing a Better Way for Eye Drug R&amp;D, Character Bio Lands $93M for Two Trials in Dry AMD<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apellis Pharmaceuticals and Astellas Pharma have the first two FDA-approved therapies for geographic atrophy, but Character Biosciences claims its approach could be best in class for treating this advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration. The biotech\u2019s Series B round will finance clinical tests of two programs, each addressing a different stage of the disease&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}