Company profile: Verastem
1.1 - Company Overview
Company description
- Provider of biopharmaceutical therapies targeting RAS/MAPK pathwayβdriven cancers, developing avutometinib, a RAF/MEK clamp designed to block RAF and MEK signaling in the RAS pathway, and defactinib, a FAK inhibitor used with avutometinib to block compensatory FAK activation and enhance tumor growth blockade.
Products and services
- Avutometinib + Defactinib Combination Regimen: A combination regimen that simultaneously clamps RAF/MEK and inhibits compensatory FAK activation, enhancing tumor growth blockade in RAS/MAPK pathway-driven cancers
- Avutometinib: A pathway-specific RAF/MEK clamp that blocks RAF and MEK signaling within the RAS pathway, engineered to treat RAS pathway-driven cancers
- Defactinib: A mechanism-based FAK inhibitor used alongside avutometinib to block compensatory FAK activation, enhancing tumor growth blockade
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