Leaders of burgeoning ophthalmology companies pitched innovations for treating glaucoma, macular degeneration and corneal blindness to potential investors and partners at the LSI Emerging Medtech Summit in Dana Point, CA. Here’s what Medtech Insight heard and learned in on-site interviews with chief executives.

Cidara developed the antifungal for candidemia/invasive candidiasis pursuant to the FDA’s 2017 ‘Unmet Need guidance,’ which provides an avenue for approval with a 'limited use' indication based on a streamlined development program. Some of the guidance recommendations also have been leveraged under the LPAD pathway.

New CEO Bill Meury said Karuna had plenty of time, money and physician enthusiasm to ensure a US launch in 2024 would be a success.

Nandini Piramal, executive director of Piramal Enterprises, discusses how things have shaped the group's pharma business, its continuing appetite for acquisitions, efforts to de-risk the supply chain for key starting materials and the outsourcing "framework" deployed by industry.