ALX Oncology Holdings Inc (ALXO) Ganando

ALX Oncology Holdings, Inc. operates as a clinical stage company, which engages in the research and development of therapies for cancer patients. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and currently employs 43 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2020-07-17. The firm's lead product candidate, evorpacept, is a CD47 blocking therapeutic that combines a high-affinity CD47 binding domain with an inactivated, proprietary Fc domain. The company is engaged in focusing on combining evorpacept with anti-cancer antibodies, antibody drug conjugate (ADCs), and PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors. Evorpacept is being evaluated across multiple ongoing clinical trials in a range of cancer indications. Its second product candidate is ALX2004, an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-targeted ADC. ALX2004 comprises an affinity-tuned EGFR antibody backbone engineered for optimal activity as an ADC, a proprietary topoisomerase I inhibitor payload with enhanced bystander effect, and a linker with enhanced stability.