Acucela Inc.'s Novel Visual Cycle Modulator Demonstrates Promise as a Treatment for Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration

BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acucela, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing new treatments for blinding eye diseases, announced today that data on the company’s novel visual cycle modulator, ACU-4429, a potential oral treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), will be featured at the Aegean Retina XI Meeting being held in Crete, Greece from July 3 to 5, 2009. Dry AMD is a leading cause of vision loss in people over the age of 50, yet there are no therapies currently approved to treat this condition.

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