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Article: CIBA VISION AND QLT TO EXPAND STRATEGIC ALLIANCE.
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- April 17, 2000
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:: Companies to Seek Out and Co-Develop New Treatments for Eye Diseases
:: PR Newswire, London, April 17. This press release is transmitted on behalf of CIBA Vision
Atlanta and Vancouver, British Columbia - CIBA Vision, the eye care unit of Novartis, and QLT PhotoTherapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: QLTI; Toronto) have agreed to broaden their partnership to actively develop other compounds used either alone or in combination with photodynamic therapy agents to treat diseases characterised by neovascularisation, a growth of abnormal blood vessels in the eye. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of a number of ocular diseases caused by this condition; ...