List of Biologics Companies in Oregon - 11

13therapeutics is a research and drug development company identifying and characterizing novel anti-inflammatory peptide therapeutics for unmet medical needs with high commercial potential. The company has an innovative platform for discovering and enhancing peptides, derived from naturally occurring pathogens (e.g., bacteria, viruses, fungi), which modulate the human immune response. This platform has produced a portfolio of peptides with demonstrated immune-regulatory activity and with varying mechanisms of action. These peptides have potential application for treatment of both acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. Many of the company’s peptides are capable of multiple methods of delivery, have shown serum stability, and have other desired features clinical therapeutics. Target conditions include the treatment of acute inflammatory diseases such as Acute Otitis Media (AOM), Systemic Inflammation, Meningitis, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Uveitis and Ischemia. We are also evaluating peptides in chronic models for Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Multiple Sclerosis, Atherosclerosis, Crohn’s Disease and Psoriasis, among others. Using our evolution-based methodology, we envision rapid development across several disease states.

AgonOx, Inc.is a spin-off company from the Providence Cancer Center located in Portland, Oregon. We are developing immune system activators for use in cancer therapy. Research in the field of T-cell modulation conducted worldwide with OX40 and other agents has demonstrated that the use of T-cell modulating therapies in combination with specific anti-tumor therapies have the potential for yielding therapeutic benefits for patients with cancer. AgonOx is focused on the development of immune system modulators in combination with other promising agents in the immune oncology space.

Aronora is a translational biotechnology company (aronorabio.com) engaged in the development of proprietary biologic therapeutics, including recombinant monolconal antibodies and enzymes. Rational design of our innovative therapeutic agents is expected to result in drug products that reduce the progression and growth of life-threatening blood clots without the detrimental bleeding side effects that characterize all currently marketed antithrombotic drugs. Our products are intended to be used in difficult-to-treat, severe, rapidly progressing, or catastrophic thrombotic blood clotting diseases.

Enosi Therapeutics is a drug research and development company focused on providing industry-leading therapeutics for autoimmune diseases and cancer. The company was founded by world-renowned scientists Professor Sir Marc Feldmann, who discovered anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases ( Lasker Award, 2003 ); and Dr. H. Michael Shepard, whose research in humanized antibodies created the first monoclonal antibody therapy targeting cancer oncogene encoded-proteins ( Lasker award, 2019). Enosi Therapeutics combines Feldmann and Shepard’s expertise in cancer and autoimmune diseases with Executive Chairman Dr. James N. Woody’s unique combination of medical, scientific and management expertise to expand therapeutic options.

Najít Technologies is dedicated to the development of safe and effective vaccines against infectious diseases of global importance.

Oregon State University continues to advance its 150-year mission to provide access to a high-quality education as Oregon's largest and only statewide public research university.

PDX Pharmaceuticals is an IND-enabling stage biopharmaceutical company. We develop novel combination and immunotherapies to treat cancer by bringing complementary biological pathways together to achieve synergistic clinical benefit. Our therapeutic candidates bridge the innate and adaptive immune systems by generating profound CD8+ T cell production. Our pipelines are patented AIRISE (Augmenting Immune Responses and Inhibiting the Suppressive Environment of Tumors) and ARAC (Antigen Release Agent and Checkpoint Inhibitor) pipelines that generate anti-tumor immunity when given locally (AIRISE) or systemically (ARAC) by relying on patient' s own tumor in situ as the source of antigens.

UbiVac is a clinical stage biotech engaged in research and development, and manufacture, of therapeutic immune activators, vaccines and cellular immunotherapies to combat cancer. Used in combination with other immunotherapies, UbiVac’s patented technologies have proven highly effective at improving survival and apparent cure in difficult to treat animal cancers (PMID: 27874054; PMID: 31747946; PMID: 22068657). UbiVac believes that the explanation for this effectiveness lies in several high impact publications from 2021 identifying a previously unknown class of shared non-mutated cancer neoantigens that make up as much as 25% of the antigens on cancer cells (PMID: 33740418; PMID: 33691108; PMID: 34663921). As the non-mutated shared cancer neoantigens are short-lived proteins, the majority are expected to be contained in UbiVac’s DPV-001. Importantly, these findings help explain why UbiVac’s immunotherapy provided cross-protective cancer immunity in preclinical models, something that had not been observed in 50 years of study (PMID: 21810919). These remarkable studies raised the possibility of off-the-shelf Universal Cancer Vaccines (PMID: 33852826). UbiVac has completed an NCI-funded phase I/II adjuvant trial of its lead agent, DPV-001. This trial met its endpoints, determined safety, identified drug formulation, and demonstrated proof-of-concept. Based on these data UbiVac partnered with the Providence Cancer Institute and Incyte on a first-in-human immunotherapy trial of UbiVac’s DPV-001, anti-GITR and anti-PD-1 for advanced HNSCC. The first patients were treated in Q4 2021, and preliminary immunological monitoring data will be presented at AACR in April 2022. UbiVac also has a pipeline of cellular therapies under development. Given that UbiVac’s CEO and CSO, together, have 55+ years of experience with preclinical and clinical studies of adoptive immunotherapy, UbiVac is well positioned to bring their innovative cellular therapy platforms to the clinic.