Outlook Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Board Appointments
November 19, 2020 at 01:05 pm
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Outlook Therapeutics, Inc. announced the creation of its Global Retina Advisory Council. Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, has agreed to act as Chairman of the Advisory Council and Firas Rahhal, MD, has agreed to join him as an inaugural member. The Global Retina Advisory Council is being established by Outlook Therapeutics to ensure that it has access to guidance and advice on all relevant topics from a group of pre-eminent global specialists in retinal medicine. Outlook Therapeutics intends to include additional expert advisors from around the world as it advances its ongoing clinical program and pre-commercialization planning for ONS-5010/LYTENAVA™ (bevacizumab-vikg), an investigational ophthalmic formulation of bevacizumab for treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) and other retinal diseases. Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, is Medical Advisor at Outlook Therapeutics and a recognized retinal specialist worldwide, with over 250 publications and more than 125 issued patents. Over the course of his career, Dr. Humayun has received several research awards, including the 2005 Innovator of the Year award (R&D magazine) and more recently the 2020 Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). He also has been recognized for his clinical work, voted by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top 1% of Ophthalmologists in America. Most notably, in 2016 Dr. Humayun received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama for his innovative work on bioengineered implants including the development of the Argus II, the world’s first FDA-approved artificial retinal prosthesis. Firas Rahhal, MD, is a partner at Retina-Vitreous Associates Medical Group in Los Angeles and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the UCLA School of Medicine – Jules Stein Eye Institute. He has published dozens of scientific papers and is a frequent presenter at major international scientific meetings. He has extensive expertise in advancing clinical development programs, having been an investigator in over 100 national or international trials, many of which led to novel therapies for vitreo-retinal diseases. Dr. Rahhal has been consistently named “Top Doctor” by his physician peers in the Los Angeles Magazine annual review. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Retina Specialists, and The Retina Society. He is Co-Director of the RVA-USC Joint Vitreoretinal Fellowship training program.
Outlook Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company focuses on developing and commercializing ONS-5010 (LYTENAVA (bevacizumab-vikg)), an ophthalmic formulation of bevacizumab for use in retinal indications. The Company's product candidate, ONS-5010, is developed to be administered as an intravitreal injection for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), diabetic macular edema (DME), and branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO). Bevacizumab is a full-length, humanized anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) recombinant monoclonal antibody (mAb), that inhibits VEGF and associated angiogenic activity. VEGF is a protein that promotes the growth of new abnormal blood vessels. Its biologics license application (BLA) for ONS-5010 in wet AMD involved three clinical trials, which include NORSE ONE, NORSE TWO and NORSE THREE. The Company sells ONS-5010 in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Japan and other markets.