BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops oral small-molecule and injectable protein therapeutics to treat rare diseases. The company markets peramivir injection, an intravenous neuraminidase inhibitor for the treatment of acute uncomplicated influenza under the RAPIVAB, RAPIACTA, and PERAMIFLU names; and ORLADEYO, an oral serine protease inhibitor to treat hereditary angioedema. It is also developing BCX17725, a protein therapeutic for netherton syndrome which is in phase 1; Avoralstat, an ocular plasma kallikrein inhibitor for diabetic macular edema that is in preclinical phase; and BCX10013, an oral Factor D inhibitor for complement-mediated diseases, as well as developing Oral C5 Inhibitor and Oral C2 Inhibitor. The company has collaborations and in-license relationships with the Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Green Cross Corporation; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and The University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Industrial Research, Ltd. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.
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Cue Biopharma, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops a novel class of injectable therapeutics to selectively engage and modulate targeted, disease relevant T cells in the United States. Its lead drug product candidate is the CUE-401, a novel approach to induce and expand antigen specific Tregs for regulating disease causing autoreactive Teff cells which is in preclinical trial; and CUE-501, a treatment of autoimmune disease via anti-viral T cell-mediated depletion of B cells. The company also develops CUE-101, which is in phase 1b clinical trial to treat HPV+ recurrent metastatic, or head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in second line, and beyond patients as a monotherapy, as well as in phase 1b clinical trial for the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma as a first line, therapy in combination with standard of care KEYTRUDA; and CUE-102, which is in phase 1b clinical trial as a monotherapy in late line recurrent metastatic WT1+ colorectal, gastric, ovarian, and pancreatic cancer. It has collaboration agreements with LG Chem, Ltd. for the development of CUE-101 and CUE-102 Immuno-STATs; collaboration and option agreement with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd to development and commercialization rights for CUE-401; and license agreement with Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The company was formerly known as Imagen Biopharma, Inc. and changed its name to Cue Biopharma, Inc. in October 2016. Cue Biopharma, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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