CohBar Inc

OTC:CWBR

CohBar, Inc. engages in the research and development of mitochondria-based therapeutics. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California and currently employs 9 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2015-01-06. The firm focuses on developing therapeutics targeting chronic and age-related diseases. The company is advancing a pipeline of peptide analogs through varying stages of development, such as CB5138-3 for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF); CB4211 for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and obesity; and several preclinical and discovery-stage programs. Its processes of identifying nucleic acid sequences encoding native peptides in the mitochondrial genome, developing, and optimizing analogs of these natural mitochondrial derived peptides (MDPs), as well as developing and conducting screens to identify and characterize the activities of these peptides are referred to its Mito+ platform. The company is using its Mito+ platform to identify and develop modified versions of natural peptides called analogs, to treat a range of serious conditions, with a focus on chronic diseases involving inflammation and fibrosis.