Another Evergreen Me-Only Drug Cleared by the FDA for Phase II Clinical Trial
On February 4, 2022, Evergreen Therapeutics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Evergreen Therapeutics" or "Evergreen") announced that an oral drug for the treatment of dry macular degeneration with independent intellectual property rights, EG-301, it’s IND was approved by the US FDA and officially entered the phase II clinical trial. EG-301, part of Evergreen Therapeutic’s ophthalmic pipeline, is an oral medication for the treatment of dry maculopathy in patients over 50 years of age. EG-301 has complete safety data in humans and demonstrated efficacy in animal studies. According to statistics, there were about 100 million people with maculopathy in the world in 2020, of which Dry macular disease (AMD) accounted for about 90% of the total number of patients with maculopathy. There