FibroGen Inc

NASDAQ:FGEN

FibroGen, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapeutics. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and currently employs 566 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-11-14. The firm is engaged in discovering, developing and commercializing a pipeline of therapeutics. The company applies its capabilities in hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) biology, 2-oxoglutarate enzymology, and connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) biology to advance medicines for the treatment of anemia, fibrotic disease, and cancer. The Company’s product Roxadustat is an oral small molecule inhibitor of HIF-prolyl hydroxylase activity for the treatment of anemia caused by chronic kidney disease (CKD). The company is also developing Roxadustat for anemia associated with myelodysplastic syndromes. The company also develops Roxadustat for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia (CIA). Pamrevlumab, an anti-CTGF human monoclonal antibody for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The firm is also enrolling patients in its two Phase III trials of pamrevlumab patients.