General information
WMT AG
Waldhofer Str. 104
69123 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Contact person: Claus Kremoser, Chairman of the Board
Company main phone: +49 (6221) 65282-0
Website: https://wm-therapeutics.com/
Year founded: | 2020
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Source of foundation: | Independent foundation |
No. of employees: |
Worldwide: 15 |
Corporate description / mission:
WMT targets the Warburg metabolism of advanced cancers ("Warburg Metabolism Therapeutics").
Their anti-Warburg warheads induce an artificial starvation/ hibernation of the cell, i.e. a broad shutdown of energy metabolism but w/o killing the cell. This allows for a certain therapeutic window by not affecting normal cells but "cooling down" fast growing, highly glycolytic cancer cells.
Using this mechansism they will target certain late stage solid cancers which are predisposed to their type of treatment (gynecological & lung cancers (NSCLC and SCLC), others).
Their goal is to develop an own drug candidate through a phase I/II early clinical study thereby establishing a dosing regimen and validating biomarkers of predisposition and therapeutic response.
State of ownership: Private / independent
Headquarters: Yes
Categorization
Sector: |
- Biotechnology - Therapeutics and Diagnostics
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Subsector: |
- Immunotherapy
- Small molecules
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Primary therapeutic areas: |
- Neoplasms / cancer / oncology
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Customer segments: |
- Large biotech & big pharma
- Small biotech
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