Oyster Point Pharma said yesterday that it raised $93 million in a Series B round to support the clinical development of its intranasal dry eye disease therapies. The Princeton, N.J.-based company’s lead product candidates for dry eye disease are designed to stimulate the trigeminal parasympathetic pathway to trigger natural tear film production. The drugs, OC-01 and OC-02, […]
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Oyster Point takes aim at the root of dry eye disease with intranasal drug-delivery technique
Large pharmaceutical companies dominate the dry eye disease space – Allergan (NYSE:AGN) rakes in more than a billion dollars every year for its Restasis eye drops. Eight-person Oyster Point Pharma wants in on that market. But it’s betting on a completely different approach. “What we’ve come up with is a very innovative nasal spray, which when sprayed into the […]