Calithera Biosciences Inc

F:2CB

Calithera Biosciences, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on discovering and developing small molecule drugs that target novel and critical metabolic pathways in tumor and cancer-fighting immune cells. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and currently employs 63 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-10-02. The Company’s is engaged in discovering and development of targeted therapies, which disrupt cellular metabolic pathways to preferentially block tumor cells and enhance immune-cell activity. The firm is advancing a pipeline of first-in-clinic, oral therapeutics to meaningfully expand treatment options available to patients. The Company’s principal operations are based in South San Francisco, California. The company has a range of pipeline of small molecule drug candidates, which target enzymes controlling metabolically critical pathways in tumor cells and immune cells. The company has multiple internally discovered clinical stage compounds that are all enzyme inhibitors. The firm is engaged in developing telaglenastat in combination with standard therapies in a select set of solid tumors. Its lead development pathway for telaglenastat is for the treatment of KEAP1 or NRF2 mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).