Akouos
NASDAQ:AKUSAkouos, Inc., a precision genetic medicine company, developing gene therapies to restore, improve, and preserve physiologic hearing for individuals. The company's precision genetic medicine platform incorporates a proprietary adeno-associated viral vector library and a novel delivery approach. Its lead product candidate is AK-OTOF, a gene therapy for the treatment of hearing loss due to mutations in the OTOF gene. The company is also developing AK-CLRN1 for the auditory manifestations of Usher syndrome 3A, or USH3A; and AK-antiVEGF for vestibular schwannoma. In addition, its precision genetic medicine platform addresses hearing loss related to genes needed for supporting cell function. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
NextCure
NASDAQ:NXTCNextCure, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in discovering and developing novel immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases by restoring normal immune function. The company is developing NC410, an immunomedicine designed to block immune suppression mediated by LAIR-1; NC762, a monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to B7-H4, a protein expressed on multiple tumor types; and NC525, a monoclonal antibody that binds to LAIR-1 to functionally kill AML blast cells and leukemic stem cells while preserving normal blood cells, including hematopoietic stem cells. Its discovery and research programs include an antibody in preclinical evaluation of other potential novel immunomodulatory molecules. It has a license agreement with Yale University. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Beltsville, Maryland.
Sesen Bio
NASDAQ:SESNSesen Bio, Inc. engages in designing, engineering, and developing targeted protein therapeutics. It offers Vicineum and Proxinium, which target tumor cell surface antigens that allow for rapid internalization into the targeted cancer cell and also have limited expression on normal cells. The company was founded by Reza Dana, K. Christopher Garcia, Gregory L. Verdine, Casey T. Weaver and K. Dane Wittrup on February 25, 2008 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
Alaunos Therapeutics
NASDAQ:TCRTAlaunos Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage oncology-focused cell therapy company, develops adoptive TCR engineered T-cell therapies. It develops TCR Library, which is in Phase I/II clinical trial for 12 TCRs reactive to mutated KRAS, TP53, and EGFR from its TCR library for the treatment of non-small cell lung, colorectal, endometrial, pancreatic, ovarian, and bile duct cancers; hunTR, a human neoantigen T-cell receptor engine. The company has a license agreement with PGEN Therapeutics, Inc.; research and development agreement with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; and a patent license agreement, and research and development agreement with the National Cancer Institute. The company was formerly known as ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. and changed its name to Alaunos Therapeutics, Inc. in January 2022. Alaunos Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Xynomic Pharmaceuticals
OTCMKTS:XYNOXynomic Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops small molecule drug candidates for the treatment of cancer in the People's Republic of China and the United states. Its lead drug candidate is Abexinostat, an orally dosed hydroxamic acid-based small molecule histone deacetylase inhibitor. The company develops pazopanib a molecular therapy for treating renal cell carcinoma; XYN-603 that is in Phase 1/2 clinical trial to treat patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) mantle cell lymphoma or R/R diffuse large b-cell lymphoma (DLBCL); and XYN-604, which is in phase 1b trial for treatment of multiple solid tumors. It also develops single agent monotherapy products that is in phase II clinical trial, including XYN-601 for treatment of R/R follicular lymphoma (FL); XYN-606 to treat R/R DLBCL; and XYN-605 for treatment of R/R FL. In addition, the company develops drug candidate XP-105, a mTORC1/2 inhibitor, which has completed Phase I clinical trial for treatment of breast cancer. Further, its pre-clinical oncology drug candidate include XP-102 (BI 882370), a pan-RAF inhibitor. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.