Korro BioNASDAQ: KRRO

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Korro Bio, Inc. (Korro) (Nasdaq: KRRO) today announced that members of management will participate in the following upcoming investor and scientific conferences:

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Korro Bio, Inc. (Korro) (Nasdaq: KRRO), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing a new class of genetic medicines for both rare and highly prevalent diseases, is presenting new preclinical data demonstrating the specificity and the completion of a genetic mouse study and sustained editing activity for KRRO-110, its development candidate for the treatment of AATD.

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, or AATD, is an inherited disease that affects the lung, liver, and skin. The current treatment landscape involves smoking cessation, COPD treatment, and augmentation therapy with AAT. Newer therapies in development include elastase inhibitors, novel augmentation therapy, RNA editing, gene therapy, and RNA interference.

The average of price targets set by Wall Street analysts indicates a potential upside of 86.9% in Korro Bio, Inc. (KRRO). While the effectiveness of this highly sought-after metric is questionable, the positive trend in earnings estimate revisions might translate into an upside in the stock.