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Announces Vitargus Presentation at Upcoming AAO 2019 Annual Meeting
GlobeNewswire- October 10, 2019
FREMONT, CA, Oct. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
- via NEWMEDIAWIRE - American BriVision (Holding) Corporation (ABVC) (the "Company"), a clinical stage
biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic solutions in oncology/hematology, CNS, and ophthalmology, today announced that
feasibility study results regarding Vitargus , its investigational medical device, will be reported during a presentation at
the Retina Subspecialty Day program of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) 2019 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Andrew Chang, the principal investigator
of the feasibility study, will present the results at 5:12pm PST on Friday, October 11, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Dr. Chang will discuss the lack of toxicity and any treatment-related serious adverse events (SAEs) in the study as well as data
that demonstrate the efficacy of Vitargus as a viable potential alternative for vitreous substitution in the surgical treatment
of retinal detachment and vitreous hemorrhage. Given the encouraging study results, the Company plans to initiate a multi-national,
multi-site pivotal study for Vitargus in 2020, assuming sufficient funding.
Details of the presentation are as
Title: Vitreous Substitutes Following
Presenter: Dr. Andrew Chang, MBSS, PhD - Principal Investigator
Session date/time: Friday, October 11, 2019, 5:12 p.m. PST
Session title: First-Time Results of Clinical Trials
Room: Moscone Center - WEST 3002 Room
Grand View Research estimates the global
retinal surgery devices market size to be $1.56 billion in 2016, growing at a 7.8% CAGR through 2025, and driven by the growing
prevalence of diabetic retinopathy, a major complication arising from diabetes. Vitargus is an injectable hydrogel that transforms
into a gel matrix in the eye after injection and upon exposure to physiological temperatures.
About American BriVision
American BriVision is a clinical stage
biopharmaceutical company focused on utilizing its licensed technology to conduct proof-of-concept trials through Phase II of the
clinical development process at world-famous research institutions (such as Stanford University, University of California at San
Francisco, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center). The company has an active pipeline of six drugs and one medical device (ABV-1701/Vitargus )
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many of which are beyond the Company's control, and cannot be predicted or quantified, and, consequently, actual results
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without limitation, risks and uncertainties associated with (i) our inability to manufacture our product candidates on a commercial
scale on our own, or in collaboration with third parties; (ii) difficulties in obtaining financing on commercially reasonable terms;
(iii) changes in the size and nature of our competition; (iv) loss of one or more key executives or scientists; and (v) difficulties
in securing regulatory approval to proceed to the next level of the clinical trials or to market our product candidates. More detailed
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