Kala Pharmaceuticals IncDUS Kala Stock Report

Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in Arlington, Massachusetts and currently employs 34 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-07-20. The firm is engaged in the research, development and commercialization of therapies for rare diseases of the eye. The firm's biologics-based investigational therapies utilize its Mesenchymal Stem Cell Secretome (MSC-S) platform. Its lead product candidate, KPI-012, is in clinical development for the treatment of persistent corneal epithelial defect (PCED), a rare disease of impaired corneal healing, which has received orphan drug designation from the United States Food and Drug Administration. The firm is also focused on targeting KPI-012, for the treatment of partial limbal stem cell deficiency and ocular manifestations of moderate-to-severe Sjogren's and plans to initiate preclinical studies to evaluate the utility of its MSC-S platform for retinal degenerative diseases, such as Retinitis Pigmentosa and Stargardt Disease.