Protagonist Therapeutics

PTGX

Biotech

Health Care

Pharma

Country

US

Industry

Health Care

Market Cap

Small Cap

Num. Employees

103

IPO Date

Aug 11, 2016

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Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in discovering and developing peptide-based therapeutic drugs to address unmet medical needs. The company is headquartered in Newark California, California and currently employs 103 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2016-08-11. The firm uses its peptide-based chemical entities rusfertide and JNJ-2113 in different stages of development, all derived from its proprietary discovery technology platform. Its clinical programs fall into two categories of diseases: hematology and blood disorders, and inflammatory and immunomodulatory diseases. Its lead clinical asset, rusfertide (PTG-300), is an injectable hepcidin mimetic in development for the treatment of erythrocytosis, iron overload and other blood disorders. The Company’s Interleukin-23 receptor (IL-23R) antagonist compound JNJ-2113 is an orally delivered investigational drug that is designed to block biological pathways targeted by marketed injectable antibody drugs. Its PN-943 is a wholly owned, investigational, orally delivered, gut-restricted alpha 4 beta 7 (α4β7) specific integrin antagonist for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).