Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc. Common Stock
Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops small molecules to improve the lives of patients with genetically defined diseases in the areas of high unmet medical need in the United States. Its clinical-stage product candidate is pociredir, a fetal hemoglobin inducer, which is in phase 1b clinical trial for the treatment of sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. The company also discovers drug targets for potential treatment inherited aplastic anemias, such as of diamond-blackfan anemia, shwachman-diamond syndrome, and fanconi anemia, as well as novel fetal hemoglobin inducers, fibrotic disorders, and cardiomyopathies which is in preclinical trial. It has collaboration and license agreement with MyoKardia, Inc. to identify biological targets that are capable of modulating genes of interest with relevance to cardiomyopathies; and licensce agreement with CAMP4 which includes certain small molecule compounds, composition of matter and method of use patent rights, and know-how to research, develop, manufacture, use, and commercialize; and Sanofi for the development and commercialization of losmapimod, an oral small molecule being investigated for the treatment of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc. was Incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Opus Genetics, Inc., a clinical-stage ophthalmic biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and commercializing therapies for the treatment of inherited retinal diseases (IRDs). It develops OPGx-LCA5, an early-onset retinal degeneration that is in Phase 1/2 clinical trial for the treatment of LCA5-associated IRD; and OPGx-BEST1 to treat BEST1-associated retinal disease. The company also develops various pre-clinical IRD programs, including OPGx-RHO, a gene therapy that targets autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa caused by RHO mutations; OPGx-RDH12 that is designed to restore protein expression and halt functional deterioration in patients with retinal dystrophy caused by mutations in the retinal dehydrogenase gene; OPGx-MERTK, an AAV vector for the treatment of MERTK IRD; OPGx-NMNAT1, a gene augmentation therapy designed to halt functional deterioration in pediatric patients with retinal degenerative disease caused by mutations in the nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyltransferase 1 gene; and OPGx-CNGB1, an AAV gene therapy for retinitis pigmentosa due to mutations in the CNGB1 gene. In addition, it develops Phentolamine Ophthalmic Solution for reversal of mydriasis, as well as for the treatment of presbyopia and dim light or night vision disturbances; and APX3330, a small-molecule inhibitor of Ref-1 for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy. The company was formerly known as Ocuphire Pharma, Inc. Opus Genetics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.
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