Highlights from the Podium and In the News

Read the full article in the Sept/Oct 2021 issue of Retina Specialist where Richard Mark Kirkner interviews Dr. Amir Kashani, about the technology and the clinical investigation. 

 Publication of the one year follow-up results from our Phase 1/2a clinical trial in dry age-related macular degeneration - In a Special Issue of Translational Vision Science & Technology (tvst)  

Read the latest blog post (or listen on Spotify) profiling our program on  THE STEM CELLAR, The Official Blog of CIRM, California's Stem Cell Agency.

In an article for UCSB - The Current, Britney Pennington and Lincoln Johnson discuss how novel cryopreservation methods enable long-term storage and worldwide distribution of a cellular therapy for age-related macular degeneration. 

  In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, RPT scientists in collaboration with colleagues at the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of Southern California report a novel cryopreservation technique that facilitates long-term storage of RPT’s CPCB-RPE1 ocular implants. This technique will greatly enhance the ability to widely distribute the implants and increase the number AMD patients that are able to receive the treatment. 

Publication of preliminary results from our Phase 1/2a clinical trial in dry age-related macular degeneration - The cover story in Science Translational Medicine  

AARP highlights RPT Study participant in:   Saving Their Health and Ours.  Medical Breakthroughs of 2020

A video produced by the Roski Eye Institute - highlighting the first implant procedure

A participant in our clinical trial shares her story.