Boundless Bio, Inc. Common Stock
Boundless Bio, Inc., a clinical-stage oncology company, develops cancer therapeutics to address the unmet need of patients with oncogene amplified tumors by interrogating extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA). The company's lead product candidate is BBI-355, an ecDNA-directed therapeutic candidate and oral inhibitor of checkpoint kinase 1 that is in Phase 1/2 clinical trial in patients with oncogene amplified cancers. It also develops BBI-098, a picomolar biochemical inhibition of checkpoint kinase 1 demonstrating central nervous system penetrance in preclinical models. In addition, the company offers ECHO, an ecDNA harboring oncogenes diagnostic test to detect ecDNA in patient tumor specimens; and Spyglass platform, a platform used to identify druggable targets in oncogene amplified cancers. The company was formerly known as Pretzel Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Boundless Bio, Inc. in July 2019. Boundless Bio, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
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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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