AXIM Biotechnologies, Inc Announces Medical Advisory Board Appointments
October 20, 2021 at 09:00 am
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AXIM Biotechnologies, Inc. announced it has appointed Kelly K. Nichols, O.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. to its Medical Advisory Board. Dr. Nichols joins AXIM?s three other new Advisory Board members, including doctors Henry D. Perry, Laura Periman, and Chairman Joseph Tauber. A founding member of the Ocular Surface Society of Optometry, Dr. Nichols currently serves as Dean of the School of Optometry at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is an acknowledged expert on DED and Ocular Surface Disease and has been extensively published. She earned her second B.S. and a Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) at UC Berkeley, and an M.P.H in biostatistics and a Ph.D. in Vision Science at Ohio State University. Dr. Nichols currently serves as Dean of the School of Optometry at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has served extensively on the Executive Board and for the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society and on each of the steering committees (DEWS, DEWS II, Contact Lens Discomfort, and MGD workshops), and is a founding member of Ocular Surface Society of Optometry. She currently serves as president of the Association for Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) and secretary of the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR)/Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR). Dry Eye Disease Market is recent estimates of the prevalence of dry eye disease are that over 26 million people in the United States and over 300 million globally suffer with dry eye disease. The prevalence is growing in both young and old adults, making it more urgent that clinicians are better able to diagnose and treat DED. As many as two-thirds of patients with symptoms of dry eye have never been diagnosed by their physician. Diagnosing DED is a challenge because of the multifactorial nature of the disease, with symptoms similar to other ocular surface conditions. It is well known that there is often a discordance between signs and symptoms, highlighting the need for more sensitive and accurate diagnostic tools.
Axim Biotechnologies, Inc. is a vertically integrated research and development company. The Company is focused on improving the landscape for the diagnosis of ophthalmological conditions such as dry eye disease (DED) through rapid diagnostic tests. Its core competencies include development of rapid lateral flow immunoassays, reagents, and monoclonal antibody development for such assays. Its product categories include Eye Health, wherein the Company acquired two FDA cleared tests for dye eye disease and has internally developed a third assay; and SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody tests. The Company is focused on developing a proprietary diagnostic platform that can be adapted to test for a variety of analytes including SARS-Cov-2, Lactoferrin, IgE, Lacritin, and MMP-9. Its platform capability can also be applied to rapid testing for vaccine candidates. Its platform can also be used to enable point-of-care detection for one or more cancers using a unique cancer biomarker, QSOX1-L.