XBiotech Inc. Common Stock

XBiotech, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of therapeutic antibodies. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas and currently employs 85 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2015-04-15. The firm's True Human monoclonal antibodies are derived from human donors that mount a natural human immune response. The firm is focused on therapies that block a potent substance, known as interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1a), that mediates a number of pathophysiological processes including tissue breakdown (i.e. synovium, cartilage, bone), paraneoplastic angiogenesis and tumor stroma remodeling, formation of blood clots, malaise, muscle wasting and general inflammation. The company has various candidate products, including Natrunix. The company has a clinical-stage therapeutic for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and several pre-clinical-stage therapeutics, including an oral delivery antibody therapeutic for colon infection by C. difficile.