STAA vs ELVN Comparison

Staar Surgical Co is a manufacturer of lenses. It designs, develops, manufactures, and sells implantable lenses for the eye and delivery systems used to deliver the lenses into the eye. The company also makes lenses that are used in surgery to treat cataracts. The company offers two types of products: Implantable Collamer lenses (ICL) and intraocular lens (IOL). The ICLs are used in refractive surgery and IOLs are used in cataract surgery. The majority of sales are generated from the ophthalmic surgical product segment.

Enliven Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage precision oncology company focused on the discovery and development of potentially first-in-class precision oncology therapies. Enliven's programs are designed to address issues such as tolerability, combinability, resistance and disease escape through brain metastases. Its product candidates include ELVN-001 which is a potent, selective, small molecule kinase inhibitor designed to specifically target the BCR-ABL gene fusion, the oncogenic driver for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, and the ELVN-002 which is central nervous system (CNS) penetrant and irreversible HER2 inhibitor with activity against wild type HER2 and various HER2 mutations.