FogPharma vs Pliant Therapeutics
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FogPharma develops cell-penetrating mini-proteins (CPMPs) to target intracellular cancer drivers like beta-catenin and FOXM1 that are undruggable by antibodies; raised $174M including a $100M Series C in 2023;
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FogPharma is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2015 by Gregory Verdine and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developing a novel class of cancer therapeutics based on cell-penetrating mini-proteins (CPMPs). Traditional cancer drugs fall into two broad categories: small molecules that can penetrate cells but struggle to bind complex protein surfaces, and antibodies that bind complex surfaces with high specificity but cannot enter cells. FogPharma's CPMPs are designed to do both — penetrate cell membranes and engage large, complex intracellular protein targets that cause cancer but have historically been considered undruggable.
Pliant Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech (Nasdaq: PLRX) developing integrin inhibitors for fibrotic diseases, with lead program bexotegrast in Phase 2b/3 trials for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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Pliant Therapeutics develops small molecule integrin inhibitors targeting the pathological tissue scarring (fibrosis) that drives diseases including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH/MASH). Integrins are cell surface receptors that activate TGF-β, the master regulator of fibrosis — blocking specific integrin subtypes (αvβ6, αvβ1) can halt or reverse fibrosis progression without broadly suppressing immunity.
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