NAMS vs KOD Comparison

NewAmsterdam Pharma Co NV is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company with a mission to improve patient care in populations with metabolic diseases where currently approved therapies have not been adequate or well tolerated. Its product, obicetrapib, is a next-generation, oral, low-dose CETP inhibitor that is developed to potentially overcome the limitations of current LDL-C lowering treatments. The Company has one reportable segment, which comprises the discovery, development, and commercialization of transformative therapies for cardio-metabolic diseases.

Kodiak Sciences Inc has developed a new technology platform, the Antibody Biopolymer Conjugate (ABC) platform, for retinal medicines. Its investigational medicine, tarcocimab tedromer (Zenkuda or tarcocimab), is an anti-VEGF therapy built on Kodiak's proprietary ABC platform. Another investigational medicine, KSI-501, is an anti-interleukin 6, or IL-6, VEGF-trap bispecific therapy built on the ABC platform and is being developed for high-prevalence retinal vascular diseases and intended to address the unmet needs of extended durability and targeting disease biology beyond VEGF for differentiated efficacy. Its third investigational medicine, KSI-101, is a high-strength (100 mg/mL) bispecific protein targeting IL-6 and VEGF.