Akorn
NASDAQ:AKRXAkorn, Inc., a specialty generic pharmaceutical company, develops, manufactures, and markets generic and branded prescription pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter (OTC) consumer health products, and animal health pharmaceuticals in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health. The Prescription Pharmaceuticals segment offers generic and branded prescription pharmaceuticals in various dosage forms, including sterile ophthalmics, injectables, and inhalants; and non-sterile oral liquids, topicals, nasal sprays, and otics. Its primary products include Akten, a topical ocular anesthetic gel; AzaSite, an antibiotic used to treat bacterial conjunctivitis; Cosopt, Cosopt PF, Betimol, and Zioptan, which are used in the treatment of glaucoma; and Xopenex inhalation solution used in the treatment or prevention of bronchospasm. The Consumer Health segment manufactures and markets OTC products for the treatment of dry eye under the TheraTears brand. It also markets other OTC consumer health products comprising Mag-Ox, a magnesium supplement; and the Diabetic Tussin line of cough and cold products. In addition, this segment offers a portfolio of animal health products, such as Anased and VetaKet veterinary sedatives; Tolazine and Yobine sedative reversing agents; and Butorphic, a pain reliever. Akorn, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Dova Pharmaceuticals
NASDAQ:DOVADova Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, focuses on acquiring, developing, and commercializing drug candidates for thrombocytopenia disease. The company's lead product candidate is DOPTELET that is indicated for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in adult patients with chronic liver disease scheduled to undergo a procedure. It also develops DOPTELET for the treatment of chronic immune thrombocytopenia and chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia. Dova Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.
Magenta Therapeutics
NASDAQ:MGTAMagenta Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company focus on improving stem cell transplantation. Its product candidates are designed to bring the curative power of stem cell transplant to patients with blood cancers, genetic diseases, and autoimmune diseases. The company's product portfolio includes MGTA-117, an anti-CD117 antibody conjugated to an amanitin payload that targets hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and leukemia cells; and MGTA-45, an anti-human CD45 antibody conjugated to a DNA-interacting payload for HSCs, leukemia cells, and immune cells. In addition, it focus on development of ADC-based conditioning program that targets a receptor of T cells; and novel conditioning and translation stem cell sciences, as well as develops cell therapy program, E478, which is a small molecule aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonist for stem cell-based gene therapy and genome editing. In addition, the company has a research and clinical collaboration agreement with AVROBIO, Inc. for the treatment of lysosomal storage disorders; and Beam Therapeutics, Inc. to evaluate the potential utility of MGTA-117 for conditioning of patients with sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. Magenta Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as HSCTCo Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Magenta Therapeutics, Inc. in February 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Progenics Pharmaceuticals
NASDAQ:PGNXProgenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an oncology company, develops, manufactures, and commercializes pharmaceutical products and other technologies to target, diagnose, and treat cancer cancer in the United States and internationally. The company's product candidates include Azedra, a radiotherapeutic product candidate for the treatment of iobenguane scan positive, unresectable, and locally advanced or metastatic pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma for adult and pediatric patients; PyL, a clinical-stage fluorinated prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted PET/CT imaging agent for prostate cancer; and 1095, a PSMA-targeted Iodine-131 labeled small molecule, which is in Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Its product candidates also comprise PSMA TTC, a thorium-227 labeled PSMA-targeted antibody therapeutic that is in Phase I clinical trial for treatment of metastatic prostate cancer; and Leronlimab, a humanized monoclonal antibody, which is in Phase III development for the treatment of HIV infection. The company also offers Relistor-subcutaneous injection for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in adults with chronic non-cancer pain or advanced-illness adult patients; Relistor tablets for the treatment of OIC in adults with chronic non-cancer pain; PSMA AI, an imaging analysis technology that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to quantify and automate the reading of PSMA targeted imaging; and automated bone scan index, a software that quantifies the hotspots on bone scans and calculates the bone scan index value. It has license agreement with Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for the development and commercialization of Relistor worldwide; and Amgen Fremont, Inc. to use its XenoMouse technology for generating human antibodies to PSMA. Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in New York City, New York.
Sinovac Biotech
NASDAQ:SVASinovac Biotech Ltd., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses in the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of vaccines against human infectious diseases in the People's Republic of China. The company's product portfolio includes vaccines against hepatitis A and B; hand, foot, and mouth diseases caused by enterovirus 71 (EV71); seasonal influenza; H5N1 and H1N1 pandemic influenza; coronavirus; varicella; and mumps. Its marketed products include Healive, an inactivated hepatitis A vaccine; Bilive, a combined inactivated hepatitis A and B vaccine; Anflu, a split viron influenza vaccine; Panflu, a vaccine against the H5N1 influenza virus; Panflu.1, a vaccine against the influenza A H1N1 virus; mumps vaccine to treat viral disease in human species; split viron pandemic influenza vaccine; and Inlive, an EV71 vaccine. The company also offers varicella, a vaccine to treat contagious infectious disease; pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, a vaccine to prevent streptococcus pneumoniae infections, such as pneumonia and septicemia; quadrivalent influenza vaccine, a vaccine to protect against two influenza A viruses and two influenza B viruses; and CoronaVac, a vaccine against COVID-19. In addition, its pipeline products include sabin inactivated polio vaccine, a vaccine to treat Poliomyelitis that has completed phase III clinical trial; and rubella vaccine. The company has collaboration agreements with GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA to develop combination vaccines containing measles for the China market; Tianjin CanSino Biotechnology Inc. to develop a pneumococcal vaccine; and Instituto Butantan to advance the clinical trials of CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine candidate against COVID-19 to Phase III. Sinovac Biotech Ltd. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.