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Ocugen, Inc. Company profile

Ocugen (OCGN) is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on discovering, developing, and commercialising gene therapies to cure blindness illnesses and creating a Covid-19 vaccine. 

Founded in 2006, Ocugen became a public company in 2014. The company’s shares are traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol OCGN.

Projects in the pipeline are Covid-19 vaccines, a Modifier Gene Therapy Platform and Novel Biologic Therapies for Retinal Diseases. 

For the Covid-19 vaccine, the company, in collaboration Bharat Biotech, was developing, manufacturing and commercialising COVAXIN for the prevention of the disease for US and Canada markets. COVAXIN is a whole-virion inactivated Covid-19 vaccine candidate and is formulated with the inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The Modifier Gene Therapy Platform is designed for retinal diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa (RP), leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The technology is licensed from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear (Harvard Medical School).

The company is developing OCU200, a biologic product candidate for the treatment of severe vision-threatening diseases such as diabetic macular edema (DME), diabetic retinopathy (DR), and wet age-related macular degeneration (Wet-AMD). 

Patients affected by these diseases have common symptoms, such as blurry vision and increasing visual loss as the condition develops.

Another technology in the pipeline is OCU400, the company’s first product candidate developed with its Modifier Gene Therapy Platform.

Ocugen is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania.