Centessa Pharmaceuticals PLC (CNTA) Kazanmak

Centessa Pharmaceuticals Plc operates as clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, which engages in discovering and developing medicines that delivers transformational to patients. The company is headquartered in Altrincham, Cheshire and currently employs 114 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2021-05-28. The firm is developing a new class of potential therapies within its orexin receptor 2 (OX2R) agonist program for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), impaired attention, cognitive deficits, fatigue and other symptoms across neurological, neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. The company also has an early-stage immuno-oncology program focused on its LockBody technology platform. Its OX2R agonist pipeline includes ORX750, its advanced OX2R agonist development candidate, and ORX142, ORX489 and OX2R agonists in preclinical development. Its ORX750, an investigational, orally administered, highly potent and selective OX2R agonist, is in a Phase IIa study of participants with narcolepsy type 1 (NT1), NT2 and idiopathic hypersomnia (IH). ORX142 is the second OX2R agonist development candidate being advanced for the treatment of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders and other symptoms.