Erasca, Inc. Common Stock
Erasca, Inc., a clinical-stage precision oncology company, focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing therapies for patients with RAS/MAPK pathway-driven cancers. The company's lead product is naporafenib which is in SEACRAFT-2 pivotal Phase 3 trial for patients with NRAS-mutated (NRASm) melanoma; and in SEACRAFT-1 Phase 1b trial for patients with NRAS Q61X melanoma. It also develops ERAS-0015, a pan-RAS molecular glue for the treatment of patients with RAS-altered solid tumors; ERAS-4001, a pan-KRAS inhibitor for the treatment of patients with KRAS-altered solid tumors; and ERAS-12, an investigational EGFR D2/D3 biparatopic antibody (bpAb) for the treatment of EGRF and RAS/MAPK solid tumors. In addition, the company's products under development include ERAS-801, a central nervous system (CNS)-penetrant EGFR inhibitor for patients with EGFR-altered recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) which is in phase 1 clinical trials; and ERAS-007, an oral inhibitor of ERK1/2 and ERAS-601, an oral SHP2 inhibitor for patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors. It has a license agreement with Novartis to develop, manufacture, use, and commercialize naporafenib; Katmai Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to develop, manufacture, use, and commercialize ERAS-801 and certain other related compounds; and NiKang Therapeutics, Inc. to develop and commercialize ERAS-601 and certain other related compounds. Erasca, 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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