Top Edinburgh Pharmaceutical Companies (3)
Cumulus Oncology is developing anti-cancer therapies for clinical settings in areas of high unmet need, with the aim of developing improved outcomes for cancer patients. Cumulus has the backing of a successful entrepreneur in the oncology field, and is led by a team of senior professionals, each bringing a wealth of experience across a range of areas including licensing and business development, oncology drug discovery, pre-clinical and clinical development, who have delivered programs leading to the approval and commercial success of new treatments in oncology. We are keen to hear from organisations who are looking to partner late discovery and clinical stage oncology assets.
Kynos Therapeutics is a clinical-stage private company developing an innovative pipeline of first-in-class kynurenine 3-monooxygenase (KMO) inhibitors. KMO plays a major role in the regulation of inflammation, acting at the interface between inflammation, immunity and metabolism. Inhibition of KMO has therapeutic potential in both acute inflammatory conditions such as acute kidney injury and acute pancreatitis and in chronic immuno-inflammatory disorders. Spun out from the University of Edinburgh, Kynos leverages a decade of drug discovery research on KMO inhibitors originally co-developed through a collaboration between GSK and the University of Edinburgh and now exclusively licensed to Kynos. Based in Edinburgh, UK, the company is backed by founding investor Epidarex Capital as well as IP Group plc and Scottish Enterprise with additional non-dilutive funding from Innovate UK. Kynos Therapeutics Ltd. is a Private Limited Company Registered in England and Wales, Company number 12501037
Developing precision medicines to modulate macrophages for the treatment of cancer.
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