– USA, CA – Leo Lens Pharma today announced the appointment of Dan Myers as CEO.
“Our founding team is thrilled that Dan is joining Leo Lens,” said Praful Doshi, Founder and CTO. “His proven track record of developing and commercializing novel ophthalmic pharmaceutical products and fundraising in the private and public markets will allow us to expedite our plan to bring our unique glaucoma therapy to patients and eye care professionals. I could think of no one better to help us protect sight for millions of patients suffering from the effects of glaucoma.”
Leo Lens Pharma has developed the MediPrint process, a proprietary printing technology that allows for the sustained, continuous release of ophthalmic drugs via contact lenses. The company’s lead proprietary asset is a lens to treat glaucoma. This lens is manufactured with the MediPrint process, which allows for the continuous delivery of FDA approved Bimatoprost for 7 days. Leo Lens has already had a successful pre-IND meeting with the FDA to confirm its relatively expedient regulatory strategy and will be submitting an IND for the glaucoma product in mid-2020.
About Dan Myers
Prior to joining Leo Lens, Dan Myers was the co-founder and CEO of Alimera Sciences, where he continues to serve as chairman of the Board of Directors. Before founding Alimera, Mr. Myers was a founding employee of Novartis Ophthalmics (formerly CIBA Vision Ophthalmics) and served as its President from 1997 to 2003. Mr. Myers has over 35 years of ophthalmic pharmaceutical experience, including over 21 years in the role of president or chief executive officer.
“I’m excited and honored to be joining Leo Lens at such a pivotal time in its progression,” said new CEO Dan Myers. “Our enterprise is poised to address the significant unmet need in glaucoma treatment by successfully advancing the development of our proprietary MediPrint process. We are currently building a proven pharmaceutical and ophthalmic management team to execute on this strategy and to create what I believe will be a very successful company.”
About Leo Lens Pharma
Leo Lens Pharma is an emerging San Diego-based pharmaceutical company focused on helping protect sight. Using its proprietary MediPrint process, the Company will commercialize a drug-eluting, comfort-enhancing contact lens to treat millions of glaucoma patients worldwide. While eye drops have been around for over 40 years and remain the standard of care for over 90% of patients, they have only around a 50% compliance rate. This leads millions to suffer from disease progression and thousands to suffer from preventable blindness. There is a large unmet need for a better non-invasive treatment option in this $4B US market. Leo Lens’ patented MediPrint process offers a unique value proposition for patients, practitioners, strategic partners, and payers. Leo Lens is currently focused on advancing its lead asset, a unique and complete glaucoma treatment, to the clinic while continuing to build out its product pipeline.
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