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The National Eye Institute (NEI) seeks licensing and/or co-development of a method to treat glaucoma using exosomes or a vector encoding an miRNA.

Researchers at the National Eye Institute have developed a new cytokine therapy that delivers functional interleukin 34 (IL-34) to the retina for treating ocular inflammatory diseases – such as uveitis and degenerative retinal diseases. Intraocular delivery of IL-34 protein or IL-34 gene expression system can effectively prevent retinal inflammation. Thus, it may be a promising strategy to produce long-lasting effects in suppressing abnormal retinal inflammation and preventing photoreceptor death.

The National Eye Institute's Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch seeks interested parties to co-develop the use of nitisinone (NTBC) for oculocutaneous albinism or as a treatment for increasing pigmentation in the eyes, hair and/or skin of patients.

To improve the transduction efficiency the inventors at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a novel, non-invasive approach of applying electric current in combination with a gene therapy vector. This minimally invasive strategy significantly improves the transduction efficiency of AAV vectors in the mouse retina. This represents an improved method for restoring high levels of RS1 expression in the retina of X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) patients. The NEI seeks a licensing and/or co-development partner to commercialize its AAV-RS1 Gene Therapy for XLRS.

Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have generated Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS) from two Late-Onset Reginal (L-ORD) patients with a dominant mutation in CTRP5 protein and two of their unaffected siblings. All iPS cells were differentiated into authenticated Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) cells. The NEI seeks licensing and/or co-development research collaborations for Metformin as an FDA-approved drug to treat Age-related Retinal Degeneration.