KalVista Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
KalVista Pharmaceuticals Ltd. launched in August 2011 as a spin out of Vantia Therapeutics. KalVista acquired a portfolio of small-molecule plasma kallikrein inhibitors from Vantia's preclinical store. The compounds will be developed to treat diabetic macular edema, a condition that threatens the vision of up to a quarter of the world's 285 million diabetes sufferers.
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