Character Biosciences

About Character Biosciences

Character Biosciences is a precision medicine company pioneering targeted therapies for ophthalmology, with a focus on Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). The company has developed a patient data platform that integrates genomics with deep, longitudinal clinical and imaging data to uncover genetic drivers of disease progression and advance novel therapeutics. Character is advancing two programs for Dry AMD into the clinic with additional discovery-stage programs underway, and maintains a multi-target drug discovery collaboration with Bausch + Lomb. The company's interdisciplinary team spans human genetics, clinical science, data science and engineering, and drug discovery and development.