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BOSTON--Aura Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: AURA), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a novel class of virus-like drug conjugate (VDC) therapies for multiple oncology indications, today announced it has received agreement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under an SPA for the design and planned analysis of CoMpass, the Company’s global Phase 3 clinical trial of bel-sar for the first-line treatment of adult patients with early-stage choroidal melanoma (CM). The Company also announced the presentation of positive Phase 2 safety and efficacy data of bel-sar with 90% of patients at twelve months of follow-up evaluating two key clinical endpoints: tumor control and visual acuity preservation using suprachoroidal (SC) route of administration for the first-line treatment of adult patients with early-stage CM. The results were presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) 2023 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California.