Mink Therapeutics Inc

NASDAQ:INKT

MiNK Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of allogeneic invariant natural killer T cell therapies to treat cancer and other immune mediated diseases. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 33 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2021-10-15. The firm is specialized in discovery, development and commercialization of allogeneic, off-the-shelf, invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cell therapies to treat cancer and other immune-mediated diseases. iNKT cells are a T cell population that combine durable memory responses with the rapid cytolytic features of natural killer (NK) cells. iNKT cells offer therapeutic advantages as a platform for allogeneic therapy in that the cells naturally home to tissues, aid clearance of tumors and infected cells and suppress graft-versus-host-disease (GvHD). The firm offers platform, which is designed for reproducible manufacturing for off-the-shelf delivery. Its product candidate, AGENT-797, is an off-the-shelf, allogeneic, native iNKT cell therapy that is in multiple Phase I clinical trials, which is used for the treatment of multiple myeloma.