EyePoint cuts 53% of workforce after wet AMD trial failure

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EyePoint Announces Strategic Prioritization

October 19, 2026 7:15 AM EDT

WATERTOWN, Mass., Oct. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EyePoint, Inc. (Nasdaq: EYPT), a company committed to developing and commercializing innovative therapeutics to improve the lives of patients with serious retinal diseases, today announced a strategic prioritization designed to reduce operating expenses and focus resources on its late-stage program for DURAVYU in diabetic macular edema (DME). This strategic realignment follows todays topline readout from the Phase 3 LUCIA study of DURAVYU in wet AMD, which did not meet its primary endpoint of non-inferiority, despite vision improvements, and despite meeting key secondary endpoints including reduction in treatment burden,... More