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NEURODEGENERATIVE RETINAL DISEASES
ACUCELA
 

     Acucela is a private company focusing on eye diseases, including neurodegenerative retinal diseases (such as macular degeneration), Stargardt's disease, retinitis pigmentosa, and glaucoma. Acucela uses long-lived, fully differentiated primary retinal neurons in its proprietary pharmaceutical compound screening systems to identify and develop safe, efficacious compounds. The OcuScreen™ service division provides data generation on custom drug compounds for its customers. The firm signed two alliances, which provide for upfront payments, milestone payments, as well as royalties on sales of developed products. The Drug Discovery division discovers, tests, and develops custom drug compounds for retinal eye diseases. Its pipeline has several candidates in discovery and one compound in pre-clinical development. www.acucela.com