Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy Company Description

Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy operates as a clinical stage drug discovery and development company.

The company’s lead product candidate is Bexmarilimab, a novel anti-Clever-1 humanized antibody that targets a subpopulation of tumor-associated macrophages and converts the highly immunosuppressive M2-like macrophages to a pro-inflammatory state to promote immune activation.

It is also developing bexmarilimab for the treatment of hematological and solid tumor cancers; and in combination with care therapies, azacitidine, and other hypomethylating agents in relapsed/refractory myelodysplastic syndromes, acute myeloid leukemia, and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

In addition, the company develops receptors involved in regulation of immune response in organ damage and bone marrow regeneration.

Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Turku, Finland.