Protara Therapeutics

Protara Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage company engaged in developing treatments for rare and specialty diseases with significant unmet needs. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 46 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-10-22. The Company’s portfolio includes its lead candidate, TARA-002, an investigational cell-based therapy in development for the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and lymphatic malformations (LMs). The firm is evaluating TARA-002 in an ongoing Phase II trial in NMIBC patients with carcinoma in situ (CIS) who are unresponsive or naive to treatment with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), as well as a Phase II trial in pediatric patients with LMs. In addition, the Company is developing IV Choline Chloride, an investigational phospholipid substrate replacement for patients on parenteral nutrition who are otherwise unable to meet their choline needs via oral or enteral routes.