Ophthotech

Ophthotech is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for age-related macular degeneration.

Ophthotech Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, develops various therapeutics to treat diseases of the eye. It is developing Fovista, which has completed Phase IIb clinical trials for use in combination with anti-VEGF drugs for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD); and ARC1905, a potent and selective inhibitor of complement factor C5 that has completed Phase I/IIa clinical trials to treat wet AMD. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.