Cytokinetics Inc.
Cytokinetics, Incorporated, a late-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing muscle activators and inhibitors as potential treatments for debilitating diseases in the United States. The company develops small molecule drug candidates primarily engineered to impact muscle function and contractility. Its drug candidates include omecamtiv mecarbil, a novel cardiac myosin activator that is in Phase III clinical trial in patients with heart failure. It also develops CK- 089, a fast skeletal muscle troponin activator that is in Phase I clinical trial; CK-586, a small molecule cardiac myosin inhibitor, that is in Phase II clinical trial; and aficamten, a novel, oral, small molecule cardiac myosin inhibitor which is in Phase III clinical trial discovered for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It has a strategic alliance with Ji Xing Pharmaceuticals Limited; and a collaboration and license agreement for the development and commercialization of aficamten in Japan for the treatment of patients with obstructive and non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Cytokinetics, Incorporated was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.
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Kazia Therapeutics Limited, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an oncology-focused biotechnology company in South Korea. Its lead development candidate is paxalisib, a small molecule, brain-penetrant inhibitor of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, which is in Phase 3 clinical trial, for the treatment of glioblastoma, isocitrate dehydrogenase-mutant glioma, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor, brain metastases, primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma, triple negative breast cancer, and ovarian cancer. The company also develops EVT801, a small-molecule selective inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3, which is in Phase 1 clinical trial, to treat advanced solid tumors. It has collaborations with the Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group, OIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Genentech Inc., Global Coalition for Adaptive Research, Vivesto AB, Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Ltd, Evotec SE, and Sovargen Co., Ltd. The company was formerly known as Novogen Limited and changed its name to Kazia Therapeutics Limited in November 2017. Kazia Therapeutics Limited was incorporated in 1994 and is based in Sydney, Australia.
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