ABT vs CYT

Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells health care products worldwide. It operates in four segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Medical Devices. The Established Pharmaceutical Products segment provides generic pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, irritable bowel syndrome or biliary spasm, intrahepatic cholestasis or depressive symptoms, gynecological disorder, hormone replacement therapy, dyslipidemia, hypertension, hypothyroidism, Ménière's disease and vestibular vertigo, pain, fever, inflammation, and migraine, as well as provides anti-infective clarithromycin, influenza vaccine, and products to regulate physiological rhythm of the colon. The Diagnostic Products segment offers laboratory systems in the areas of immunoassay, clinical chemistry, hematology, and transfusion; molecular diagnostics systems that automate the extraction, purification, and preparation of DNA and RNA from patient samples, as well as detect and measure infectious agents; point of care systems; cartridges for testing blood; rapid diagnostics lateral flow testing products; molecular point-of-care testing for HIV, SARS-CoV-2, influenza A and B, RSV, and strep A; cardiometabolic test systems; drug and alcohol test, and remote patient monitoring and consumer self-test systems; and informatics and automation solutions for use in laboratories. The Nutritional Products segment provides pediatric and adult nutritional products. The Medical Devices segment offers rhythm management, electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular, and structural heart devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases; and diabetes care products, as well as neuromodulation devices for the management of chronic pain and movement disorders. The company was founded in 1888 and is based in North Chicago, Illinois.

Cyteir Therapeutics Inc.

Cyteir Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage oncology company that develops novel therapeutics based on the biology of DNA repair for the treatment of cancer and synthetic lethality therapeutics for autoimmune diseases. The company engages in manufacturing therapeutics that provide precision targeting of key DNA repair factors to induce diseased cells to self-destruct by DNA damage overload and uses an integrated drug development platform that modulates the imbalance between DNA damage and repair for the therapeutic effect to deliver a pipeline of small molecule therapeutics with a range of potential disease state applications. It provides CYT-0851, an oral small-molecule inhibitor of RAD51-mediated DNA repair. It focuses on providing treatments for a range of hematological malignancies, solid tumors, and chronic autoimmune disorders. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.