How To Build An Endpoint: Spark Designed Testing Maze To Study Rare Vision Loss
Executive Summary
In an interview, Spark President Katherine High explains that multi-luminance mobility test used in clinical development of Spark's gene therapy voretigene sprang from 2011 FDA meeting on need to study functional vision in patients with retinal degenerative diseases. Experience highlights need for new endpoints when targeting previously untreated diseases, she says.
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