KALA vs TPST Comparison

Kala Bio Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the research, development and commercialization of inventive therapies for rare and severe diseases of the front and back of the eye. It main product candidate, KPI-012, is a human MSC-S, which contains numerous human-derived biofactors, such as growth factors, protease inhibitors, matrix proteins, and neurotrophic factors that can potentially correct the impaired corneal healing that is an underlying etiology of multiple severe ocular diseases. Its MSC-S platform is for retinal degenerative diseases, such as Retinitis Pigmentosa and Stargardt Disease.

Tempest Therapeutics Inc is a late-stage develpment biotechnology company developing small molecule therapeutics to treat cancer through mechanisms that directly kill tumor cells and activate tumor-specific immunity. Its clinical-stage therapeutic product candidates are TPST-1120 and TPST-1495 which are clinical-stage molecules designed to inhibit their respective targets. Company's small-molecule product candidate, amezalpat (previously known as TPST-1120), has completed a Phase 2 study in first-line hepatocellular carcinoma and the second small-molecule product candidate is TPST-1495, plans to initiate a Phase 2 study for in familial adenomatous polyposis.