BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acucela, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing new treatments for blinding eye diseases, announced today that Ryo Kubota, M.D., Ph.D., Acucela’s chairman, president and chief executive officer, has been invited to participate in Retina International’s annual Scientific & Medical Advisory Board meeting being held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on May 3, 2010. During the event – which is being held in conjunction with the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s (ARVO) 2010 Annual Meeting – select experts will examine recent developments in the treatment of degenerative retinal diseases. Dr. Kubota will discuss Acucela’s oral visual cycle modulator, ACU-4429, which is being developed by Acucela and its partner Otsuka Pharmaceutical and is in Phase 2 as a potential therapy for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD). In addition to Dr. Kubota attending the Scientific & Medical Advisory Board meeting, several of Acucela’s Scientific Advisory Board members have also been invited to join the session.
