Press Releases


Arctic Therapeutics ehf,  an Icelandic drug development company and partner Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, cataracts and other diseases caused by oxidative stress, today announced approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for initiation of the first clinical trial evaluating AT-001 (Nacuity’s NPI-001) for the treatment of Hereditary Cystatin C Amyloid Angiopathy (HCCAA) in Iceland.  Read more...


Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, cataracts and other diseases caused by oxidative stress, today announced the expansion of its business advisory board with the appointment of Daniel Feller. Mr Feller is a co-founder of Genetic Cures Australia, which supports the growth of medical research on gene-based approaches and emerging therapies for inherited rare diseases in Australia. Read more...


Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, cataracts and other diseases caused by oxidative stress, today announced that a clinical trial site has been added to its Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating NPI-002, a proprietary antioxidant molecule delivered via a sustained release intravitreal implant, for the delay of cataract progression in patients undergoing vitrectomy. Read more...


Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, cataracts and other diseases caused by oxidative stress, today announced that target enrollment of 48 patients has been reached in the SLO-RP Phase 1/2 clinical trial of NPI-001 tablets in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) associated with Usher syndrome (USH). Read more...


Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, cataracts, and other ocular diseases caused by oxidative stress, today announced the appointment of Russell Kelley, Ph.D., MBA, to its board of directors. Dr. Kelley currently serves as managing director of the Retinal Degeneration (RD) Fund, the venture arm of Foundation Fighting Blindness and a significant investor of Nacuity. Read more...


Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, cataracts and other diseases caused by oxidative stress, and Arctic Therapeutics International, a precision-based drug development and diagnostic testing company using genetic and genealogy information to guide therapeutic development, today announced the companies have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement and strategic partnership for the development and commercialization of NPI-001 in Iceland for the treatment of hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy (HCCAA). Read more...


Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, cataracts and other ocular diseases caused by oxidative stress, today announced the closing of a $16.5 million Series B financing led by Foundation Fighting Blindness and its venture arm RD Fund. Additional existing investors also participated in the round. Maxim Merchant Capital, a division of Maxim Group LLC, served as sole placement agent for the financing. Read more...


Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nacuity) today announced the expansion of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) with the appointment of Nancy Holekamp, M.D., and Richard L. Lindstrom, M.D.  Read more...


Drug delivery technology firm Integral Biosystems and Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have signed a Collaboration and License Agreement to co-develop sustained release products utilizing Nacuity’s proprietary antioxidant compounds and Integral’s patented NanoM™ platform ophthalmic insert technology. Under the collaboration, Nacuity and Integral will develop products to treat several ocular disorders.

Nanoform Finland Plc, an innovative nanoparticle medicine enabling company, and Nacuity Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that they have signed a Technology Proof of Concept ("PoC") Agreement, with compensation on standard commercial terms. This will apply Nanoform's award-winning nanoparticle CESS® technology to enhance ophthalmic drug delivery of Nacuity's NPI-001 and NPI-002 drug candidates.

Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nacuity) today announced the initiation of a Phase 1/2 study of NPI-001 tablets in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) associated with Usher syndrome (USH). The study, named SLO-RP, is designed to demonstrate greater retinal sensitivity in RP/USH patients treated with NPI-001 Tablets versus placebo. Read more...

Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nacuity) announces that it has entered into an agreement with Johns Hopkins University (JHU) providing Nacuity with an exclusive worldwide license to the intellectual property (IP) underlying certain U.S. and foreign patent applications that Nacuity has filed in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. Read more...

News


This story from the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) shares a family's experience with a child living with Usher syndrome, and their hopes for the Nacuity-sponsored study Safety and Efficacy of NPI-001 Tablets versus Placebo for Treatment of Retinitis Pigmentosa Associated with Usher Syndrome (SLO RP).

This post from the The Foundation Fighting Blindness announces that Nacuity is launching a Phase 1/2 clinical trial in Australia for NPI-001, an oral treatment designed to slow vision loss in people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and RP associated with Usher syndrome.

Publications


Martis RM, Grey AC, Wu H, Wall GM, Donaldson PJ, Lim JC. N-Acetylcysteine amide (NACA) and diNACA inhibit H2O2-induced cataract formation ex vivo in pig and rat lenses. Exp Eye Res. 2023 Sep;234:109610. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2023.109610. Epub 2023 Aug 1. PMID: 37536438.


Hector E, Cairns D, Michael Wall G. Evaluation of NACA and diNACA in human cystinosis fibroblast cell cultures as potential treatments for cystinosis. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2022 Jun 16;17(1):231. doi: 10.1186/s13023-022-02367-w. PMID: 35710564.


Neil J; Wall GM; Brown M. Antioxidant Effects of N-acetylcysteine Amide and NPI-002 on Human Skin or Equivalents. AAPS PharmSci360, Poster Abstract, October 26-November 5, 2020.

King B; Vance J; Wall GM; Shoup R. Quantitation of free and total N-acetylcysteine amide and its metabolite N-acetylcysteine in human plasma using derivatization and electrospray LC-MS/MS. J Chrom B 2019;1109:25-36.