Emerging Company Profile: Backed by strong academic talent and a recent $80m fundraising, the US biotech is on a mission to address the unmet medical need in PD-L1 negative cancer by targeting the HHLA2 pathway.
NextPoint Therapeutics believes it can advance the next big breakthrough in precision immuno-oncology by targeting HHLA2, an antigen commonly expressed in the tumors of the underserved population of PD-L1 negative cancer patients.
The firm was founded in 2018 by two reputed academics with strong track records: Gordon Freeman of the Dana-Farber Cancer...
Merck’s immuno-oncology blockbuster was the world’s best-selling drugs by revenues for the second year in a row, with an almost $12bn lead over its closest rival, Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 drug Ozempic.
Emerging Company Profile: Backed by Flagship Pioneering, Empress deploys its Chemilogics platform to seek leads for small molecule therapies in inflammation, immunology, cancer and metabolic disease.
Emerging Company Profile: Efficacy data on the young group’s first pH-engineered antibody-drug conjugate could come next year, and potential partners will be watching.
Emerging Company Profile: The eight-year-old vaccine firm is planning clinical trials in the Philippines and Brazil to see how its synthetic viral peptide vaccine technology stands up against coronaviruses and dengue fever.
The start-up launched last year with Phase III-ready upacicalcet, which has nearly completed two pivotal trials in secondary hyperparathyroidism and for which it has exclusive rights outside of Asia.
Emerging Company Profile: Backed by Flagship Pioneering, Empress deploys its Chemilogics platform to seek leads for small molecule therapies in inflammation, immunology, cancer and metabolic disease.
Discontinuation of the AML study created concern about potential readthrough to a pivotal MDS trial, but the company and analysts pointed out differences in the diseases.
