KLRS vs GLTO Comparison

Kalaris Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapeutics for prevalent retinal diseases. The company is developing TH103, a novel, clinical-stage anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) drug, engineered to potentially provide longer-lasting and increased anti-VEGF activity in patients with exudative and neovascular retinal diseases. TH103 is a fully humanized recombinant fusion protein, functioning as a decoy receptor (a VEGF trap), leveraging salient molecular properties of the human body's native, highest affinity VEGF receptor 1.

Galecto Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapeutics designed to target the biological processes that lie at the heart of cancer and liver diseases. Its initial focus is on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of galectin-3 and lysyl oxidase-like 2, or LOXL2. Its product candidate GB0139 is for the treatment of severe fibrotic lung diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, a life-threatening progressive fibrotic disease of the lung. Its product GB1211, a selective oral galectin-3 inhibitor for the treatment of fibrosis related to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, and GB2064, a selective oral inhibitor of LOXL2 that it initially plans to develop for the treatment of myelofibrosis.