>Discovery of ripasudil as a novel dAMD treatment: Using the data from the first round of drug candidate testing, Robin proposed a second set of drug candidates. We tested them in the same experiment to find there was a new top hit: ripasudil, a drug already used in the eye.
>Discovery of ripasudil as a novel dAMD treatment: Using the data from the first round of drug candidate testing, Robin proposed a second set of drug candidates. We tested them in the same experiment to find there was a new top hit: ripasudil, a drug already used in the eye.
https://bmcophthalmol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...
(2020)
>Ripasudil alleviated the inflammation of RPE cells
>The inflammation of the RPE cells could also lead to the occurrence and development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)