Prix Maze Therapeutics Inc (MAZE)

Maze Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in harnessing the power of human genetics to develop novel, small molecule precision medicines for patients living with renal, cardiovascular, and related metabolic, or CVRM diseases. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and currently employs 125 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2025-01-31. The firm is engaged in harnessing the power of human genetics and variant functionalization with its Maze Compass platform to develop small-molecule precision medicines for the treatment of renal, cardiovascular and related metabolic diseases, including obesity. The Compass platform has been purpose-built to inform all phases of drug discovery and development process through clinical trial design, advancing two wholly owned lead programs, MZE829 and MZE782, each of which represents a novel precision medicine-based approach to chronic kidney disease (CKD). Its lead program, MZE829, is an oral, small-molecule inhibitor of apolipoprotein L1, or APOL1, for the treatment of patients with APOL1 kidney disease, or AKD. Its second lead program, MZE782, is an oral, small-molecule inhibitor of the solute transporter SLC6A19, a novel CKD target.