Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals

About:

Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals is developing therapies for inflammatory and autoimmune conditions.

Website: http://www.kiniksa.com/

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Top Investors: Fidelity, Deerfield, Cormorant Asset Management, Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners, Sofinnova Investments

Description:

Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, acquiring, developing, and commercializing therapeutic medicines for patients suffering from debilitating diseases with a significant unmet medical need. It has a pipeline of product candidates across various stages of development, currently focused on autoinflammatory and autoimmune conditions. It has three clinical-stage product candidates, one of which is anticipated to commence a Phase 3 clinical trial in 2018. They follow a disciplined and methodical approach to selectively identify and acquire product candidates with strong biologic rationales or validated mechanisms of action. The company's portfolio of product candidates offers multiple development opportunities. By modulating different parts of the innate and adaptive immune system, these product candidates together have the potential to provide a variety of mechanisms to address multiple devastating diseases.