Vaxcyte, Inc. Common Stock
Vaxcyte, Inc., a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company, develops conjugate and novel protein vaccines to prevent or treat bacterial infectious diseases. Its lead vaccine candidate is VAX-24, a 24-valent carrier-sparing investigational pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in infants. The company also develops VAX-31, a 31-valent, carrier-sparing investigational PCV for the prevention of IPD in adults and children; VAX-A1, a novel conjugate vaccine candidate to prevent disease caused by Group A Streptococcus; VAX-PG, a novel protein vaccine candidate targeting the keystone pathogen responsible for periodontitis; and VAX-GI, a novel preclinical vaccine candidate for the treatment of dysentery and shigellosis, which is caused by Shigella bacteria. The company was formerly known as SutroVax, Inc. and changed its name to Vaxcyte, Inc. in May 2020. Vaxcyte, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.
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Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a late-stage biotechnology company that focuses on developing gene therapies for rare and devastating diseases in the United States. It develops vivo adeno-associated viral (AAV) programs, which include programs for Danon disease (DD), a multi-organ lysosomal-associated disorder leading to early death due to heart failure (RP-A501), which is in Phase 2 trial; Plakophilin-2 Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy (PKP2-ACM), an inheritable cardiac disorder that is characterized by a progressive loss of cardiac muscle mass, severe right ventricular dilation, dysplasia, fibrofatty replacement of the myocardium and a high propensity to arrhythmias and sudden death (RP-A601), which is in phase 1; and BAG3 Dilated Cardiomyopathy (BAG3-DCM), which is a form of cardiomyopathy and is characterized by progressive thinning of the walls of the heart, which is in preclinical stage. It also develops vivo lentiviral (LV) programs, which include programs for Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I (LAD-I), a genetic disorder that causes the immune system to malfunction (RP-L201); Fanconi Anemia (FA), a genetic defect in the bone marrow that reduces production of blood cells or promotes the production of faulty blood cells (RP-L102); and Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (PKD), a red blood cell autosomal recessive disorder that results in chronic non-spherocytic hemolytic anemia (RP-L301). It has license agreements with Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica En Red, and Fundacion Instituto de investigacion Sanitaria Fundacion Jimenez Diaz; UCL Business PLC; The Regents of the University of California; REGENXBIO, Inc.; and Temple University. Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Cranbury, New Jersey.
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