Pluri Inc. Common Stock
Pluri Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the research, development, and manufacture of cell-based products, cell therapeutics, and related technologies for various industries. It develops placenta-based cell therapy product candidates for the treatment of inflammatory, muscle injuries, and hematologic conditions; and immunotherapy platform. The company's product candidates include PLX-PAD, that is composed of maternal mesenchymal stromal cells originating from the placenta for the treatment of various indications, such as acute muscle injuries following hip fracture, acute respiratory distress syndrome due to coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), peripheral artery disease, intermittent claudication, and critical limb ischemia; PLX-R18, composed of fetal MSC like cells originating from the placenta for the treatment of hematopoietic complications of the H-ARS, and is in Phase I clinical trial to treat hematopoietic cell transplantation; and allogeneic MAIT cell therapy platform. It also offers cell manufacturing services and cell-based coffee; and develops and commercializes cultivated meat products. The company operates in the field of regenerative medicine, food tech, immunotherapy, CDMO, and AgTech. It has collaboration agreement with Bar-Ilan University to advance cancer immunotherapy for solid tumors. The company was formerly known as Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. and changed its name to Pluri Inc. in July 2022. Pluri Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Haifa, Israel.
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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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