Nkarta Inc
NASDAQ:NKTX
Nkarta Inc
Nkarta, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of natural killer cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and currently employs 136 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2020-07-10. Its modular NK cell engineering platform allows it to generate new product candidates. The Company’s engineered CAR-NK cells generally consist of an NK cell engineered with a targeting receptor, OX40 costimulatory domain, CD3z signaling moiety and a membrane-bound form of the cytokine IL15 (mbIL-15). The Company’s co-lead product candidates are NKX101 and NKX019. NKX101 is designed to innate NK biology to detect and kill cancerous cells. The primary activating receptor for NK cells is known as NKG2D, which works through the detection of stress ligands displayed by cancerous cells. The Company’s NK cell engineering platform is designed for engineering T cells and NK cells for understanding NK cell biology.
Nkarta, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of natural killer cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and currently employs 136 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2020-07-10. Its modular NK cell engineering platform allows it to generate new product candidates. The Company’s engineered CAR-NK cells generally consist of an NK cell engineered with a targeting receptor, OX40 costimulatory domain, CD3z signaling moiety and a membrane-bound form of the cytokine IL15 (mbIL-15). The Company’s co-lead product candidates are NKX101 and NKX019. NKX101 is designed to innate NK biology to detect and kill cancerous cells. The primary activating receptor for NK cells is known as NKG2D, which works through the detection of stress ligands displayed by cancerous cells. The Company’s NK cell engineering platform is designed for engineering T cells and NK cells for understanding NK cell biology.
