STAT+: The future of Apellis Pharma’s eye disease treatment is clouded by divergent study results
Apellis Pharmaceuticals has a good news-bad news problem involving its experimental treatment for geographic atrophy — a chronic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness in older people.
Two large and identically designed Phase 3 clinical trials produced confounding results: One study showed Apellis’ drug, injected into the eye, was a success — significantly slowing the progression of the disease compared to a sham injection. But the drug failed to show a benefit in the other study, albeit narrowly.
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