KLRS vs NKTX Comparison

Kalaris Therapeutics Inc is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapeutics. Kalaris 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 native, highest affinity VEGF receptor 1.

Nkarta Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of allogeneic, off-the-shelf engineered natural killer (NK) cell therapies. The Company is engaged in leveraging the natural potent power of NK cells to identify and kill abnormal cells and recruit adaptive immune effectors to generate responses that are specific and durable. The company is combining its NK expansion platform technology with proprietary cell engineering technologies to generate an abundant supply of NK cells, engineer enhanced NK cell recognition of therapeutic targets, and improve persistence for sustained activity in the body for the treatment of cancer.