Aerie Receives Positive Feedback From FDA

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AERI) (the “Company”), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of first-in-class therapies for the treatment of patients with glaucoma and other diseases of the eye, today reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed in written and verbal communications that Aerie may change the primary endpoint range of its second Phase 3 registration trial of RhopressaTM, named Rocket 2. With this agreement, the Company is changing the primary endpoint range to include patients with baseline intraocular pressures (IOPs) ranging from above 20 mmHg (millimeters of mercury) to below 25 mmHg. The former range for the primary endpoint of above 20 mmHg to below 27 mmHg will now represent a secondary endpoint range for Rocket 2.

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