BioLight Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for the Long-Term Controlled-Release Drug-Delivery Insert Platform
PR Newswire - Wed Jul 02, 8:23AM CDT
BioLight Israeli Life Sciences Investments Ltd. (TASE: BOLT) (OTCQX: BLGTY), a firm that invests in, manages and commercializes biomedical innovations grouped into clusters around defined medical conditions, announces the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent number 8,765,166 covering the device that is inserted into the eye to treat an ocular condition that contains an active agent of a free acid salt form of a prostaglandin with a low elution rate profile that is contained in the long-term controlled-release insert platform. The patent will be in effect at least until May 2031. This patent covers the technology used in Eye-D®, the company's controlled-release latanoprost insert currently in a Phase 1/2a clinical study in the U.S. for the treatment of glaucoma.
BioLight Reports Successful Interim Results from Bladder Cancer Clinical Study
PR Newswire - Tue Jul 01, 4:23PM CDT
BioLight Life Sciences Investments Ltd. (OTC: BLGTY)(TASE: BOLT), a firm that invests in, manages and commercializes biomedical innovations grouped into clusters around defined medical conditions, announced today that Micromedic Technologies (TASE: MCTC), BioLight's cancer diagnostic cluster company, achieved successful interim results in a blinded bladder cancer clinical trial with its CellDetect® technology. As a result, Micromedic will continue the trial with the goal of developing a kit for monitoring the recurrence of bladder cancer. This study is being conducted at seven medical centers and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2014.
First Patient Enrolled in FDA Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial With BioLight's Controlled-Release Latanoprost Insert for the Treatment of Glaucoma
PR Newswire - Mon Jun 30, 8:00AM CDT
BioLight Israeli Life Sciences Investments Ltd. (TASE: BOLT)(OTCQX: BLGTY), a firm that invests in, manages and commercializes biomedical innovations grouped into clusters around defined medical conditions, announces that the first patient has been enrolled in the U.S. into a FDA Phase 1/2a clinical trial with Eye-D®, the company's controlled-release latanoprost insert for the treatment of glaucoma.
BioLight Announces U.S. Patent Approval for its Formulation of Latanoprost in its Proprietary Controlled Release Insert for the Treatment of Glaucoma
PR Newswire - Wed May 14, 11:01AM CDT
BioLight Israeli Life Sciences Investments Ltd. (TASE: BOLT)(OTCQX: BLGTY), a firm that invests in, manages and commercializes biomedical innovations grouped into clusters around defined medical conditions, announces that ViSci, its wholly owned subsidiary, has been informed that a patent number 8,722,739 covering the proprietary formulation of Latanoprost, the medication contained in its controlled release insert for the treatment of Glaucoma, has been granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is intended to protect, inter alia, the chemical structure of the active ingredient for the treatment of glaucoma. The patent is also covering the release of the active ingredient from the Eye-D® subconjunctival insert and its use in treating elevated intra-ocular pressure in patients with glaucoma and ocular hypertension. The patent and its registration will be in effect at least until April 2030.
BioLight Raises NIS 19 Million, Announces China Regulatory Approval for IOPtiMate(TM) for Glaucoma Surgery
PR Newswire - Thu Mar 06, 11:07AM CST
BioLight Israeli Life Sciences Investments Ltd. (TASE: BOLT; OTCQX: BLGTY), a firm that invests in, manages and commercializes biomedical innovations grouped into clusters around defined medical conditions, announces the successful completion of an equity financing that raised gross proceeds of approximately NIS 19 million (USD 5.5 million).