About Us
We are on a mission to preserve vision and prevent blindness.
Our Story
Qlaris was founded upon a singular concept—that a comprehensive and complementary approach combining all aspects of scientific, medical, business, and strategic considerations can lead to unique insights enabling creative new ways to unlock value for patients suffering from debilitating ophthalmic diseases. This approach was uniquely realized due to the synergistic expertise of our co-founders.
Through their perseverance, a disruptive opportunity was realized in glaucoma, by targeting a critical component of intraocular pressure that was once considered immutable, untreatable, and untouchable. That key component—episcleral venous pressure (EVP)—was discovered to be addressable in the laboratory of Professor Michael Fautsch, PhD, at Mayo Clinic and is now being developed at Qlaris Bio with the promise of being a truly complementary mechanism to other drugs and drainage devices currently available to patients.
Our Team
Board of Directors
Scientific Advisory Board
Michael Fautsch, PhD (Chair)
Peter Farina, PhD
Alon Harris, MS, PhD, FARVO
Shan Lin, MD
Janet Serle, MD
Dan Stamer, PhD, FARVO
Carol Toris, PhD
Alex Huang, MD, PhD
Arthur Sit, MD, MS
Strategic Advisor
Vicente Anido
Investors
