Vor Biopharma Inc. Common Stock
Vor Biopharma Inc. operates as a clinical-stage cell and genome engineering company. The company offers the Vor Bio platform, a technology platform for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other blood cancers. It develops tremtelectogene empogeditemcel (trem-cel), a genome-edited hematopoietic stem and progenitor allogeneic donor product candidate to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and other blood cancers; trem-cel in combination with Mylotarg to treat patients in VBP101, which is in phase 1 / 2; and VCAR33, a CAR-T therapy designed to target CD33, which is under preclinical studies to treat AML post-transplant. The company also develops trem-cel + VCAR33 treatment system, CD33-directed CAR-T program, which is under pre-clinical studies for the treatment of AML; VADC45 for the treatment of hematologic malignancies, conditioning, and immune reset, which is under preclinical studies; and CD33-CLL1 treatment system made with CD33-CLL1 multiplex-edited HSC therapy and a CD33-CLL1 multi-specific CAR-T therapy, which is under preclinical studies for the treatment of AML. It has a license agreement with Columbia University and the National Institutes of Health for patents; and with Editas Medicine, Inc. for ex-vivo Cas9 gene-edited HSC therapies for the treatment and/or prevention of hematological malignancies. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, 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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