Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Common Stock
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of treatment options for neurodegenerative diseases and endocrine conditions in the United States. Its lead products candidate includes avexitide, an investigational, first-in-class glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1 receptor antagonist, which is in phase 3 clinical trial to treat post-bariatric hypoglycemia and congenital hyperinsulinism. The company also develops AMX0035, an oral, fixed-dose combination of sodium phenylbutyrate and taurursodiol which is phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of wolfram syndrome, as well as in phase 2b/3 clinical trial to treat progressive supranuclear palsy; AMX0114, which is in phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; and long-acting GLP-1 receptor antagonist to treat post-bariatric hypoglycemia and other rare diseases. Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Verastem, Inc., a development-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and commercializing drugs for the treatment of cancer in the United States. Its product candidates are Avutometinib, an orally available small molecule RAF/MEK clamp that inhibits the ras sarcoma RAF/MEK, ERK mitogen activated pathway kinase pathway which is involved in cell proliferation, migration, transformation, and survival of tumor cells; and Defactinib, an oral small molecule inhibitor of FAK and proline-rich tyrosine kinase for various solid tumors. The company is involved in clinical studies, including RAMP 301, a randomized global confirmatory trial to evaluate the combination of Avutometinib and Defactinib for the treatment of patients with recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer; RAMP 201, an adaptive two-part multicenter, parallel cohort, randomized open label trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Avutometinib and in combination with Defactinib; and FRAME, an investigation of Avutometinib and Defactinib in patients with KRAS mutant cancers and subsequent analyses; and RAMP 204 and 205. It has license agreements with Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for the development, commercialization, and manufacture of products containing Avutometinib; and Pfizer Inc. to research, develop, manufacture, and commercialize products containing Pfizer's inhibitors of FAK for therapeutic, diagnostic, and prophylactic uses in humans. In addition, it has a clinical collaboration agreement with Amgen, Inc. to evaluate the combination of Avutometinib with Amgen's KRAS-G12C inhibitor LUMAKRAS which in Phase 1/2 trial entitled RAMP 203; and a discovery and development collaboration with GenFleet Therapeutics to advance new programs targeting RAS pathway-driven cancers. Verastem, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.
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