Vor Biopharma Inc

NASDAQ:VOR

Vor Biopharma, Inc. engages in developing cell therapies for treating cancer. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and currently employs 135 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2021-02-05. The firm is engaged in combining a novel patient engineering approach with targeted therapies to provide solutions for patients suffering from hematological malignancies. Its proprietary platform leverages expertise in hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) biology, genome engineering and targeted therapy development to genetically modify HSCs to remove surface targets expressed by cancer cells. VOR33 is the lead product candidate consisting of genome-edited hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells that have been engineered to lack the CD33 protein. The company is designed to replace the standard of care in transplant settings for patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other blood cancers. VBP101 is a Phase I/II a multicenter, open-label, first-in-human study of VOR33 in participants with AML. The company offers VCAR33 programs that are chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy candidates designed to target CD33.