Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. Common Stock
Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development of therapies for central nervous system (CNS) disorders characterized by neuronal excitation-inhibition imbalance. The company's platforms include cerebrum, a small molecule platform for CNS small molecule therapies to develop orally available precision therapies; and solidus to discover and develop antisense oligonucleotide. It also develops Ulixacaltamide, a small molecule inhibitor of T-type calcium channels that is in Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of essential tremor; Vormatrigine, a small molecule targeting the hyperexcitable state of sodium-channels in the brain to treat focal onset epilepsy; Relutrigine for the treatment of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies; PRAX-020 to treat KCNT1; and PRAX-050. In addition, the company develops Elsunersen, a clinical-stage ASO designed to regulate NaV1.2 expression for the treatment of SCN2A-DEE; PRAX-080 that targets PCDH19-related developmental epilepsy; PRAX-090 for targeting SYNGAP1 loss-of-function; and PRAX-100 that targets SCN2A LoF mutations. It has a license agreement with RogCon Inc.; and research collaboration and license agreement with Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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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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