Prix Carisma Therapeutics Inc (CARM)

Carisma Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery and development of immunotherapies. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and currently employs 46 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-02-06. The firm seeks to apply the ability to engineer macrophages and monocytes, either in vivo or ex vivo. Its proprietary chimeric antigen receptor macrophages(CAR-M) platform uses CARs to redirect macrophages or monocytes against specific tumor associated antigens with the goal of targeted antitumor immunity. The company is developing a pipeline of product candidates which includes CT-1119, In Vivo CAR-Macrophage: GPC3+ Solid Tumors, In Vivo CAR-Macrophage: Oncology Targets, and CT-2401 (Liver Fibrosis). CT-2401 is a product candidate in development for liver fibrosis, and CT-1119 is a mesothelin-targeted CAR-Monocyte that is designed to treat patients with advanced mesothelin-positive solid tumors, including pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, mesothelioma, and others.