The company’s target is aminopeptidase N (CD13) located on cells of the tumor vasculature and some tumor cells, but absent from most mature blood vessels. The company’s founders have designed and studied truncated tissue factor (tTF) with a C- terminal GNGRAHA peptide (tTF-NGR) binding to CD13 and causing tumor vascular thrombosis with subsequent tumor infarction.
The company is currently carrying out a Phase II/III study for patients with soft tissue sarcoma. Since tTF-NGR targets the tumor vasculature, which is similar in different tumor types, the principle of entrapping tumor therapeutics by tTF-NGR induced vascular occlusion, if successful in the active trial, may be be generalized as a treatment modality for multiple vascularized tumor entities.
In addition to the clinical lead structure tTF-NGR, the company has active preclinical programs on other targeted proteins and nucleic acids.
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