Cue Biopharma, Inc.
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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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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