27 Sep 2017
Leuven, Belgium, 27th September, 2017 – ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR), a biotechnology company developing novel treatments for retinal disorders, with a focus on diabetic eye disease, announced today that THR-687 pre-clinical data will be presented at the European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER) 20th Annual Meeting, which is being held in Nice, France, from September 27-30th.
The poster presentation ‘THR-687, a potent small molecule integrin receptor antagonist, holds promise as a therapeutic approach for back-of-the-eye vascular pathologies’ provides further pre-clinical evidence supporting the development of THR-687. The presentation will take place at 15:00 CEST, Friday 29th September in the poster area.
The study to be presented evaluates the integrin-blocking capacity and anti-angiogenic properties of THR-687, a novel small molecule pan RGD integrin antagonist, under development to treat a broad range of patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR), with or without diabetic macular edema (DME).