Corvus Pharmaceuticals

Corvus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the development of immune modulator product candidates with the potential to treat solid cancers, T-cell lymphomas, autoimmune diseases, and infectious diseases. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, California and currently employs 29 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2016-03-23. The firm is focused on the development of ITK inhibition as a new approach to immunotherapy for a range of cancer and immune diseases. Its lead product candidate is soquelitinib, is designed to bind specifically to a protein, interleukin 2 inducible T cell kinase (ITK), involved in T cell activation, T cell receptor signaling and T cell differentiation and function. ITK, an enzyme that functions in T cell signaling and differentiation, is expressed predominantly in T cells. Its second product candidate, ciforadenant, is an oral, small molecule antagonist of the A2A receptor for adenosine designed to disable a tumor’s ability to subvert attack by the immune system by blocking the binding of immunosuppressive adenosine in the tumor microenvironment to the A2A receptor. The Company’s third product candidate is mupadolimab, a humanized monoclonal antibody that is designed to react with a specific site on CD73.