Kodiak Sciences Inc KOD

Healthcare Biotechnology

Kodiak Sciences Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company has developed a new technology platform, the Antibody Biopolymer Conjugate (ABC) Platform, for retinal medicines. Its ABC Platform uses molecular engineering to merge the fields of protein-based and chemistry-based therapies. Its lead investigational medicine, tarcocimab, is a novel anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) antibody biopolymer conjugate under development for the treatment of high prevalence retinal vascular diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, the cause of blindness in working-age patients in the developed world, and wet age-related macular degeneration, the cause of blindness in elderly patients. Its second investigational medicine, KSI-501, is a bispecific antibody biopolymer conjugate targeting the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) and VEGF. It is also developing a third investigational medicine, KSI-101, an unconjugated bispecific protein targeting IL-6 and VEGF.