New Jersey Patent of the Month – July 2021
Your eye is a globe with fluid in it. As eye pressure fluctuates you might experience different eye conditions. Glaucoma is a condition where the optic nerve is damaged as a result of increased ocular pressure and can lead to vision loss. Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has developed a combination therapy that aims to control this eye pressure and prevent damage.
Their combination therapy uses an isoquinoline compound and a prostaglandin. These two compounds are covalently linked to form a salt. Testing the treatment on a patient with elevated eye pressure showed that, after 28 days of single doses, resulted in a significantly reduced eye pressure baseline. Aerie has put lots of research into developing solutions and treatments to tackle the root cause of eye pressure disorders. Most available treatments work to simply reduce the eye pressure, but Aerie intends to treat the condition that leads to reduced eye pressure.
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