Aptevo Therapeutics Inc

Aptevo Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, which engages on developing novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and currently employs 33 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2016-07-20. The firm has two clinical candidates: Mipletamig and ALG.APV-527. Mipletamig is being evaluated in RAINIER, a two-part Phase 1b/2 trial for the treatment of frontline acute myeloid leukemia in combination with standard-of-care venetoclax + azacitidine. Mipletamig has received orphan drug designation for AML according to the Orphan Drug Act. ALG.APV-527, a bispecific conditional 4-1BB agonist, only active upon simultaneous binding to 4-1BB and 5T4, is being co-developed with Alligator Bioscience and is being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of multiple solid tumor types likely to express 5T4. The firm has three pre-clinical candidates with different mechanisms of action designed to target a range of solid tumors. All pipeline candidates are created from two proprietary platforms, ADAPTIR and ADAPTIR-FLEX.