Nanoscope Therapeutics to Present at the OIS and Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summits

Nanoscope Therapeutics to Present at the OIS and Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summits

DALLAS, April 29, 2024  — Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc., a late-stage clinical biotechnology company developing gene therapies for retinal degenerative diseases, today announced that Samarendra Mohanty, PhD, Co-Founder, and President, will present in the Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summit 2024 and the Ophthalmology Innovation Source (OIS) Retina Innovation Summit, both taking place in Seattle, Washington. The management team will be present at these events. Details for the presentations are as follows:

Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summit 2024
Presentation Title: Navigating the regulatory challenges for advancing gene therapies
Session Title: Clinical Trial Design: Regulatory
Session Date: May 3, 2024
Session Time: 4:55 – 5:10 p.m. PT
Location: Hyatt Regency Seattle
Presenter: Samarendra Mohanty, PhD, Co-Founder and President

In his presentation, Dr. Mohanty will present the manufacturing and clinical regulatory challenges for advancing gene therapies for retinal diseases. He will share lessons learned working with regulatory authorities in designing and developing assays to measure the potency of gene therapy products and efficacy endpoints in clinical trials.

Ophthalmology Innovation Source (OIS) Retina Innovation Summit
Presentation Title: Mutation-Agnostic Vision Restoration in Patients with Retinal Degeneration
Session Title: Spotlight On Regenerative Medicine
Session Date: May 4, 2024
Session Time: 3:00 – 4:05 p.m. PT
Location: Four Seasons Hotel Seattle
Presenter: Samarendra Mohanty, PhD, Co-Founder and President

Dr. Mohanty will provide a corporate update on Nanoscope’s upcoming activities following positive end-of-study top-line data from the randomized clinical trial of Multi-Characteristic Opsin (MCO) in retinitis pigmentosa (RP). This will be followed by a panel discussion on regenerative medicine moderated by Mark S. Humayun, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Co-Director-University of Southern California Roski Eye Institute.

About Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc.
Nanoscope Therapeutics is developing gene-agnostic, sight-restoring optogenetic therapies for the millions of patients blinded by inherited retinal diseases, for which no cure exists. The company’s lead asset, MCO-010, recently announced 100-week data from the RESTORE Phase 2b/3 multicenter, randomized, double-masked, sham-controlled clinical trial in the US for RP (NCT04945772). The company has also recently completed the Phase 2 STARLIGHT trial of MCO-010 therapy in patients with Stargardt disease (NCT05417126). MCO-010 has received FDA fast-track designations and FDA orphan drug designations for both RP and Stargardt disease. Preclinical assets include non-viral laser-delivered MCO-020 gene therapy for geographic atrophies secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

Investor Contact:
Argot Partners
212-600-1902
[email protected]

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  • Dr. Samarendra Mohanty, PhD |  Co-Founder & President

    Samarendra Mohanty (Co-Founder/President) is an inventor & serial entrepreneur with 20+ years experience in Biomedical Sciences. He is Co-Founder of several Biotechs and Biomedical device /diagnostic companies (developed & commercialized $100K+ biomedical instruments.)

    Dr. Mohanty obtained M.Tech in Applied Optics from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and a PhD in (Bio)Physics from the Indian Institute of Sciences-Bangalore.

    His extensive Biomedical Technologies experience includes serving as Professor/Senior Scientist at the University of Texas;  University of California, Irvine; Center for Adv. Tech (India); Int. Mol. Biotech (Germany); Univ. Pavia (Italy); NUS (Singapore); and University of St. Andrews (UK). He has authored over 200 international patents and publications in leading journals including Nature and Nature Photonics.

    He is the Principal Investigator for major grants from the National Eye Institute including Audacious Goal Initiative and Bioengineering Research grants. He serves on the editorial board of journals and chairs an international conference on optogenetics. He is the winner of a 2019 Healthcare Heroes award (Fort Worth Business Press), Retinal Organoid Challenge Award, Audacious Goal Initiative Award (NIH), Finalist of Tech Titan, and NIH-Director’s Innovator Award.