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Health Care · US listing · 🇺🇸 United States

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About KALA BIO

From its filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission

SEC filings

KALA BIO is based in Arlington, Massachusetts and is incorporated in Delaware. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the ticker KALA. The SEC classifies its business as pharmaceutical preparations. In the fiscal year to 31 December 2025, it reported revenue of $0 and a net loss of $27.0m. At that date it held total assets of $9.5m and shareholders' equity of $7.0m.

In its own words

We are a biopharmaceutical company in transition, evaluating the development of a dedicated, on-premises artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform for the biotechnology industry. Our current focus is leveraging our mesenchymal stem cell secretome (“MSC-S”) platform to test development of a scalable AI platform-as-a-service business to deploy secure, purpose-built AI systems directly within biotech and pharmaceutical client environments. We have historically been engaged in the research, development and commercialization of innovative therapies for rare and severe diseases of the front and back of the eye. Our lead product candidate was KPI-012, MSC-S, which we acquired from Combangio, Inc. (“Combangio”) on November 15, 2021. KPI-012 was in clinical development for the treatment of persistent corneal epithelial defects (“PCED”), a rare disease of impaired corneal healing. Based on the results of a Phase 1b clinical safety and efficacy trial of KPI-012 in patients with PCED, we submitted an investigational new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), which was accepted in December 2022. In February 2023, we dosed our first patient in the United States in our CHASE (Corneal Healing After SEcretome therapy) Phase 2b clinical trial of KPI-012 for PCED (the “CHASE trial”). By September 2025, the CHASE trial did not meet its primary endpoints, and we determined to discontinue our development of KPI-012 and the MSC-S platform.

Quoted from its 10-K, filed 15 Apr 2026. Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Company facts

Sector
Health Care
Industry
Pharmaceuticals
Listed since
20 Jul 2017
Employees
6
Website
kalarx.com ↗
Head office
1167 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, ARLINGTON, MA, 02476
Incorporated in
DE
Classification
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Filer status
Non-accelerated filer<br>Smaller reporting company

Leadership

Pay as last reported

  • Mr. Mark IwickiChairman of the Board, since 2015$1.5m
  • Mr. Todd BazemorePresident, Chief Executive Officer, Director, since 2017$949,550
  • Ms. Mary ReumuthChief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary, since 2024
  • Dr. Kim BrazzellHead of Research and Development, Chief Medical Officer$920,687
  • Mr. Darius KharabiChief Business Officer
  • Mr. Andrew KovenLead Independent Director$129,489
  • Dr. Marjan FaridIndependent Director$84,853
  • Mr. C. Daniel MyersIndependent Director$92,244
  • Mr. Gregory PerryIndependent Director$74,744
  • Mr. Howard RosenIndependent Director, since 2014$99,744
  • Ms. Taylor SteinerInvestor Relations, since 2025

Environmental, social and governance

Scores out of 100, from our data supplier

ESG
Overall
33
Environment
34
Social
50
Governance
16
Carbon reduction policy
No
Human rights policy
No

SWOT analysis

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Strengths

  • KPI-121 1% completed two Phase III clinical trials for eye disease treatment.
  • KPI-121 0.25% provides temporary relief for dry eye disease symptoms.
  • MPP rTKI Program targets retinal diseases with monthly eye injections.

Weaknesses

  • Kala Pharmaceuticals employs only 6 full-time employees in Watertown.
  • The company has a small workforce of 136 employees in the Health Care sector.
  • Kala Bio Inc. has a limited product portfolio with only three candidates.

Opportunities

  • Kala Bio Inc. is listed on the US stock market since 2017.
  • The Health Care sector shows growth potential for eye disease treatments.
  • The MPP rTKI Program could expand into new retinal disease therapies.

Threats

  • The company faces competition from other Health Care firms in the US market.
  • KPI-121 1% requires twice-daily application for post-operative care.
  • The MPP rTKI Program needs monthly eye injections which may reduce patient compliance.

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