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Alcon Buys Into Eye Disease Drug
by Lisa M. Jarvis
March 26, 2012
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 90, Issue 13
Alcon is paying Belgian biotech firm ThromboGenics $100 million up front for the right to commercialize the eye disease drug ocriplasmin outside the U.S. European regulatory authorities are currently considering the drug as a treatment for symptomatic vitreomacular adhesion, a disease that can cause visual distortion and central blindness. Ocriplasmin is a truncated form of plasmin that is delivered through a one-time injection in the eye.
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