Iksuda Aims For Best-In-Class Cancer ADCs With Toolbox Approach To Technology

Emerging Company Profile: While the UK biotech boasts a promising in-house platform technology, it believes a less restrictive approach to R&D could help it develop superior antibody-drug conjugates for cancer.  

Emerging Company Profile: Iksuda Therapeutics
PermaLink Can Design ADCs That Are Insusceptible To De-Conjugation • Source: Shutterstock
Key Takeaways:
  • Iksuda’s PermaLink technology can design ADCs insusceptible to drug de-conjugation.

  • It has two lead assets targeting CD19 and HER2, respectively, in Phase I development.

  • The firm is in the midst of a minimum $70m series B raise to help reach proof-of-concept.

Iksuda Therapeutics is on mission to design and develop more securely conjugated and efficacious antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for the treatment of

The UK firm’s story goes back to 2007 when investor IP Group founded a company called Glythera with two platforms focused respectively on half-life extension and conjugation technology (PermaLink)

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