Steroid administration to change in next cohorts of Adverum’s OPTIC trial

Adverum Biotechnologies will change how patients receive steroids to manage inflammation in the third and fourth cohorts of its phase 1 OPTIC trial, the company announced in a press release.
The multicenter, open-label, dose-escalation OPTIC trial is assessing the safety and tolerability of a single injection of ADVM-022, a gene therapy candidate that uses a propriety vector capsid to deliver sustained therapeutic levels of aflibercept in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration.
In previous cohorts, patients received prophylactic oral steroids; however, in the third cohort, which

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