MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The first Phase III multicenter clinical study to show vision improvement in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), known as the MARINA Study, was published in the October 5, 2006 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Philip J. Rosenfeld, M.D., Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology and retina specialist at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, was lead author of this report.