Ovid Therapeutics (NSDQ:OVID) has named MIT professor Robert Langer as the chair of its scientific advisory board. The biopharma company focuses on rare neurological diseases. “The neurosciences are on the cusp of a scientific and, hopefully, therapeutic revolution,” said Langer in a statement. “Ovid has an exciting approach to tackling the key questions that drive…
Investigational drug gives sight to patient with inherited form of blindness
A patient with childhood blindness has gained durable vision improvement after a single injection of sepofarsen, an investigational RNA therapy. The patient had a rare genetic disorder known as Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) that affects the retina and often causes severe visual impairment. Injection of sepofarsen led to measurable changes in the fovea, a depression…