Opthea Limited announced the resignation of Dr. Joel Naor, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), effective July 15th, 2023. Dr. Naor is stepping down to pursue new opportunities and will be replaced by Dr. Kenneth Sall, MD who has been appointed as Opthea’s Senior Medical Advisor. Dr. Sall will assume responsibility for safety oversight of the Opthea’s Phase 3 clinical trials investigating OPT-302, a novel VEGF-C/D ‘trap’ inhibitor, for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).

Dr. Sall is an ophthalmology specialist having served as Medical Director for over 33 years at the Sall Research Medical Center, which included several years as principle investigator on a number of large ophthalmology trials including several on macular degeneration. Dr. Sall is a graduate of the University of Southern California (USC), Keck School of Medicine.