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Kala Pharmaceuticals to Present Phase 1b Clinical Data for KPI-012 in Patients with PCED at 2022 ARVO Annual Meeting

The data support the ongoing development of KPI-012, a novel investigational secretome therapy, to address the complex wound healing process in persistent corneal epithelial defect (PCED).

Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc., recently announced that it will present data from a previously completed Phase 1b clinical trial of KPI-012 in a poster session at the 2022 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting.

The data support the ongoing development of KPI-012, a novel investigational secretome therapy, to address the complex wound healing process in persistent corneal epithelial defect (PCED). ARVO takes place in Denver, Colorado, May 1-4, 2022 and virtually, May 11-12, 2022.

Kala is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative therapies for diseases of the eye.

The accepted abstract is listed below and is now available on the ARVO conference website: https://www.arvo.org/annual-meeting/.

The session is titled “Corneal epithelial biology and repair mechanisms,” and will be presented by Valeria Sánchez-Huerta, M.D., Director General, Asociación para Evitar la Ceguera en México.

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