ISTR vs GBIO Comparison

Investar Holding Corp is a us-based financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it offers a variety of commercial and retail lending products throughout its market areas, including business loans to small to medium-sized businesses, as well as loans to individuals. It has business operations spread across the United States and serves its customers through several service branches. The bank also offers cashiers' checks, direct deposit of payroll and Social Security checks, night depository, bank-by-mail, automated teller machines with deposit automation, and debit cards.

Generation Bio Co is a genetics medicine company that is focused on creating gene therapies to provide durable and redosable treatments for patients suffering from rare and untreated diseases. The company focuses on liver and retina-related diseases. It is developing two distinct and complementary platforms that It believes will enable highly differentiated therapeutic applications. Its first platform is a potent, highly selective ctLNP delivery system for nucleic acids, which is designed to avoid off-target clearance by the liver and spleen, enabling ctLNPs to persist in systemic circulation and allowing for highly selective and potent ligand-driven targeting to specific tissues and cell types. Its second platform is its novel iqDNA, which is an optimized variant of its ceDNA.