Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a drug delivery technology company in Canada. The company is headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia. The company went IPO on 2021-03-09. The firm is focused on the development of locally delivered, extended-release products that have the potential to address therapeutic areas with high unmet medical need. DiffuSphere, a proprietary, polymer-based micro-sphere technology, is designed to facilitate targeted drug delivery of both existing and novel drugs. The Company’s EP-104GI is in a Phase Ib/IIa trial, the RESOLVE trial, for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). EP-104GI is administered as an injection into the esophageal wall, providing local delivery of drug. The firm also completed a Phase IIb clinical trial (SPRINGBOARD) of EP-104IAR for the treatment of pain due to knee osteoarthritis. In addition, the Company is developing a pipeline of later and earlier-stage long-acting formulations. Its potential pipeline indications include candidates for other inflammatory joint indications and oncology.