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Airdoc Technology (02251.HK) achieved remarkable success in 2023, accelerating its commercialization in an unparalleled way  

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

In 2023, Airdoc Technology significantly accelerated its commercialization,while most of its peers were still in the experimental stage or early stages of commercialization.

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  • In 2023, Airdoc Technology significantly accelerated its commercialization,while most of its peers were still in the experimental stage or early stages of commercialization.
  • 2) health risk assessment solutions, covering 55 types of lesions, providing chronic disease management and health assessments for healthcare industry.
  • Airdoc Technology practices the use of AI technology to assist in the prevention and control of myopia among teenagers and the development of eye health.
  • In July 2023, Airdoc Technology participated in the formulation of the "Expert Consensus on Assessing the Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases Using Artificial Intelligence Technology Based on Fundus Images."

Airdoc Technology Unveils 2023 Financial Highlights, Revenue by 79%, Serving 6.83 Million cases

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Airdoc Technology Unveils 2023 Financial Highlights, Revenue by 79%, Serving 6.83 Million cases

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  • Airdoc Technology Unveils 2023 Financial Highlights, Revenue by 79%, Serving 6.83 Million cases
    On March 27, medical artificial intelligence company Airdoc Technology (2251.
  • In 2023, through our SaMDs and health risk assessment solutions, we serviced a total of 6.83 million cases and identified 31,459 significant positive cases.
  • In 2023, Airdoc Medical broadened its reach to include hospitals, grassroots medical institutions such as community clinics, and health examination centers.
  • In June 2023, Airdoc, in collaboration with Tsinghua University's Chang Gung Hospital, developed and validated a new deep learning-based neovascular segmentation model.

AMD Extends Leadership Adaptive SoC Portfolio with New Versal Series Gen 2 Devices Delivering End-to-End Acceleration for AI-Driven Embedded Systems

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

NUREMBERG, Germany, April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the expansion of the AMD Versal™ adaptive system on chip (SoC) portfolio with the new Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 adaptive SoCs, which bring preprocessing, AI inference, and postprocessing together in a single device for end-to-end acceleration of AI-driven embedded systems.

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  • NUREMBERG, Germany, April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the expansion of the AMD Versal™ adaptive system on chip (SoC) portfolio with the new Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 adaptive SoCs, which bring preprocessing, AI inference, and postprocessing together in a single device for end-to-end acceleration of AI-driven embedded systems.
  • The AMD Versal Prime Series Gen 2 provides end-to-end acceleration for traditional, non-AI-based embedded systems by combining programmable logic for sensor processing with high-performance embedded Arm CPUs.
  • The Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 portfolios provide scalability from edge sensors to centralized compute for AI-driven systems.
  • Designers can get started with AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 early access documentation and first-generation Versal evaluation kits and design tools available today.

Opthea Appoints John Han, PharmD, as VP Medical Affairs

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Monday, April 8, 2024

Dr. Han will report to Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Frederic Guerard, PharmD, and will join the Opthea Executive Management Team.

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  • Dr. Han will report to Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Frederic Guerard, PharmD, and will join the Opthea Executive Management Team.
  • Dr. Han brings over 20 years of experience building medical affairs programs and partnering across organizations to lead pre- and post-launch initiatives for medicines in ophthalmology and retinal disease.
  • Over the course of his career, Dr. Han has served in senior leadership positions in medical and scientific affairs at leading biopharmaceutical companies.
  • He joins Opthea from Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. where he led the development of the Medical Affairs function.

Opthea Appoints Sujal Shah to the Board of Directors

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

MELBOURNE, Australia and PRINCETON, N.J., April 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Opthea Limited (ASX/NASDAQ: OPT “Opthea”, the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies to treat highly prevalent and progressive retinal diseases, including wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), today announced the appointment of Sujal Shah to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective April 4, 2024.

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  • MELBOURNE, Australia and PRINCETON, N.J., April 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Opthea Limited (ASX/NASDAQ: OPT “Opthea”, the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies to treat highly prevalent and progressive retinal diseases, including wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), today announced the appointment of Sujal Shah to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective April 4, 2024.
  • Concurrent with his appointment as non-Executive Director, Mr. Shah will also become Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee.
  • Mr. Shah is an accomplished biopharmaceutical executive with extensive leadership and product development experience and a track record in capital formation that complements the deep expertise in retinal disease, especially wet AMD, of the Opthea Board.
  • “We are delighted to welcome Sujal to our Board of Directors as we rapidly advance the registrational program for sozinibercept in wet AMD and prepare for key upcoming clinical, regulatory and commercial milestones,” said Jeremy Levin, D.Phil, MB BChir, Chairman of the Opthea Board of Directors.

YieldMax™ ETFs Announces Monthly Distributions on MSTY (120.57%), CONY (119.30%), NVDY (106.86%), AMDY (65.04%), FBY (61.10%) and Others

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

The Distribution Rate is calculated by multiplying an ETF’s Distribution per Share by twelve (12), and dividing the resulting amount by the ETF’s most recent NAV.

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  • The Distribution Rate is calculated by multiplying an ETF’s Distribution per Share by twelve (12), and dividing the resulting amount by the ETF’s most recent NAV.
  • The Distribution Rate and 30-Day SEC Yield are not indicative of future distributions, if any, on the ETFs.
  • Distributions for the ETFs (if any) are variable and may vary significantly from month to month and may be zero.
  • If the Fund does make distributions, the amounts of such distributions will likely vary greatly from one distribution to the next.

Ocugen Provides Business Update with Certain Financials for the Year Ending 2023

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Completed Cohort 1 dosing for OCU410 and OCU410ST gene therapy clinical studies for geographic atrophy (GA) and Stargardt disease, respectively

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  • Completed Cohort 1 dosing for OCU410 and OCU410ST gene therapy clinical studies for geographic atrophy (GA) and Stargardt disease, respectively
    MALVERN, Pa., April 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ocugen, Inc. (Ocugen or the Company) (NASDAQ: OCGN), a biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel gene and cell therapies and vaccines, today provided a general business update with certain financials for the year ending 2023.
  • During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company announced its mucosal vaccine candidate, OCU500, was chosen for the multi-billion-dollar NIAID Project NextGen initiative.
  • The first patient was dosed in the Phase 1/2 trials to assess the safety and efficacy of OCU410ST for Stargardt disease in November 2023.
  • Ocugen’s cash, cash equivalents, and investments totaled $39.5 million as of December 31, 2023, compared to $90.9 million as of December 31, 2022.

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals Expands Scientific Advisory Board with World-Renowned Retina Specialists

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

WATERTOWN, Mass., April 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: EYPT), a company committed to developing and commercializing therapeutics to improve the lives of patients with serious retinal diseases, today announced the appointment of leading global ophthalmologists to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), co-chaired by Carl Regillo M.D., FACS, Chief of the Retina Service at Wills Eye Hospital and Charles Wykoff, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Research of Retina Consultants of Texas. The SAB additions include Usha Chakravarthy, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.; Allen Ho, M.D. FACS FASRS, and Frank Holz, M.D., F.E.B.O., F.A.R.V.O. These three world-renowned retinal specialists will support advancement of the Company’s global clinical strategy ahead of the anticipated initiation of its Phase 3 pivotal trials in wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) in the second half of this year. Additionally, the Company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conditionally accepted the trade name, DURAVYUTM (vorolanib intravitreal insert) for the Company’s lead product candidate, EYP-1901.

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  • “The SAB’s strategic counsel, global expertise, and scientific knowledge will be incredibly valuable during this critical time in EyePoint’s growth and expansion.
  • Dr. Chakravarthy has authored or co-authored over 400 publications, and she is invited to lecture in the UK and abroad.
  • FACS FASRS is Attending Surgeon, Director of Retina Research and Co-Director of the Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital and Professor of Ophthalmology at Thomas Jefferson University.
  • He is a Board Member of the German Ophthalmological Society, and of the Club Jules Gonin and is past president of EURETINA.

AMD Recommends Rejection of “Mini-Tender” Offer from Tutanota LLC

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Monday, April 1, 2024

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) was notified on March 27, 2024 of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer by Tutanota LLC (“Tutanota”).

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) was notified on March 27, 2024 of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer by Tutanota LLC (“Tutanota”).
  • This means that unless this condition is waived by Tutanota, AMD stockholders who tender shares in the offer will receive a below-market price.
  • AMD does not in any way recommend or endorse the Tutanota offer because the offer requires that the closing price for AMD common stock exceed the offer price, and the offer price is subject to numerous additional conditions, including Tutanota obtaining financing for the offer.
  • AMD is in no way associated with Tutanota, the "mini-tender" offer or the offer documentation.

4DMT Announces Update on Regulatory Interactions and Development Path for 4D-710 for Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis

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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Phase 3 clinical endpoints include changes after 4D-710 treatment in ppFEV1, quality-of-life (Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire Revised Respiratory Domain, CFQ-R-RD) and frequency of pulmonary exacerbations.

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  • Phase 3 clinical endpoints include changes after 4D-710 treatment in ppFEV1, quality-of-life (Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire Revised Respiratory Domain, CFQ-R-RD) and frequency of pulmonary exacerbations.
  • The Company anticipates initiation of technology transfer to a commercial contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) in H1 2025.
  • Our goal is to initiate Phase 3 development in H2 2025 with 4D-710 suspension GMP process clinical trial material.
  • We look forward to sharing interim clinical data from the AEROW Phase 1/2 clinical trial at the ECFS conference in June 2024.”