OKYO Pharma to Present at the Second Annual GPCRs-Targeted Drug Discovery Summit in Boston, MA on February 21-23, 2023.
LONDON and NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OKYO Pharma Limited (LSE: OKYO; NASDAQ: OKYO) (“OKYO”, “OKYO Pharma” or the “Company”), an ophthalmology-focused bio-pharmaceutical company which is developing OK-101 to treat dry eye disease to address the significant unmet need in this multi-billion-dollar market, today announced that its CEO, Gary S. Jacob, Ph.D., will be giving an oral presentation entitled: “A Lipidated Protease-Resistant Chemerin Peptide Offers a Novel Therapeutic for Dry Eyes” on February 22, 2023 at the 2nd Annual GPCRs-Targeted Drug Discovery Summit at the Hyatt Regency in Boston, MA.
- LONDON and NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OKYO Pharma Limited (LSE: OKYO; NASDAQ: OKYO) (“OKYO”, “OKYO Pharma” or the “Company”), an ophthalmology-focused bio-pharmaceutical company which is developing OK-101 to treat dry eye disease to address the significant unmet need in this multi-billion-dollar market, today announced that its CEO, Gary S. Jacob, Ph.D., will be giving an oral presentation entitled: “A Lipidated Protease-Resistant Chemerin Peptide Offers a Novel Therapeutic for Dry Eyes” on February 22, 2023 at the 2nd Annual GPCRs-Targeted Drug Discovery Summit at the Hyatt Regency in Boston, MA.
- Dr. Jacob’s talk, which is scheduled for the afternoon of February 22, will cover the planned clinical development of OKYO’s drug candidate OK-101 to treat dry eye disease (DED).
- Dr. Jacob will follow with the progress that has led to the recent filing of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with FDA on OK-101 to treat DED, and the Company’s plans to open a phase 2 trial of OK-101 in patients with DED in the first quarter of 2023.
- On December 22, 2022, OKYO announced that it had received clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase 2, first-in-human, clinical study of OK-101 for the treatment of DED.