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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2024

Current Status of Clinical Trials Design and Outcomes in Retinal Gene Therapy.

Boris Rosin, Eyal Banin, Jose-Alain Sahel

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Turning ON the inner retinal circuity: An exciting new approach to optogenetic therapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Boris RosinThe UPMC Vision Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, USA brosin@pitt.edu.
Eyal BaninDivision of Ophthalmology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Jose-Alain SahelThe UPMC Vision Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the rapid expansion of methods encompassed by the term gene therapy, new trials exploring the safety and efficacy of these methods are initiated more frequently. As a result, important questions arise pertaining the design of these trials and patient participation. One of the most important aspects of any clinical trial is the ability to measure the trial's outcome in a manner that will reflect the effect of the treatment and allow its quantification, whether the trial is aimed at preservation or restoration of retinal cells (photoreceptors and others), vision, or both. Here we will review the existing methods for quantification of trial outcomes, stressing the importance of assessing the participant's visual function and not just visual acuity. We will also describe the key considerations in trial design. Finally, as patient safety remains the primary concern in any trial participation, we will outline the key principles in that regard.

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Clinical Trials as TopicGenetic TherapyResearch DesignHumansPatient SafetyRetinal DegenerationRetinal DiseasesTreatment OutcomeVisual Acuity

Identifiers

PMID37696658
PMCPMC11216172

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