Cascadian Therapeutics

Cascadian Therapeutics is a bio-pharmaceutical company that researches, develops, and sells therapeutic products for treatment of cancer.

Cascadian Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, researches and develops, and sells therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer in the United States. The company lead clinical-stage product candidate is tucatinib, an orally active and HER2-selective small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor, which is in two Phase Ib trials, one in combination with Kadcyla and another in combination with Xeloda and/or Herceptin. It is also developing Checkpoint kinase 1, a protein kinase that is in pre-clinical studies to regulate the cell division cycle, as well as to DNA damage and replication stress. In addition, the company focuses on the development of novel antibodies and T-cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITM domains, an inhibitory receptor expressed on T-cells and NK cells that negatively regulate immune response to cancers. It has a license agreement with Array BioPharma Inc. to develop, manufacture and commercialize tucatinib; research collaboration agreement with Sentinel Oncology Ltd. for the discovery of novel Chk1 inhibitors; and collaboration agreement with Adimab LLC for the discovery of novel antibodies against d immunotherapy targets in oncology.