Alterome Therapeutics is a San Diego-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company building next-generation small molecule cancer drugs aimed at specific oncogenic mutations. Using its Kraken platform - a structure-guided, machine-learning approach to drug design - Alterome has advanced two precision oncology programs into the clinic: ALTA2618, an AKT1 E17K mutation-selective inhibitor, and ALTA3263, a KRAS-selective inhibitor covering roughly 90% of KRAS mutations including G12V and G12D.
Nurix Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in San Francisco pioneering targeted protein degradation - medicines that destroy disease-causing proteins rather than merely blocking them. Built on its DELigase discovery engine that harnesses the cell's ubiquitin-proteasome system and DNA-encoded library screening, Nurix is advancing a pipeline of degraders and degrader antibody conjugates for cancer and autoimmune disease, led by the BTK degrader bexobrutideg (NX-5948). The company is partnered with Roche, Sanofi, Gilead, and Pfizer (via Seagen) and trades on Nasdaq under NRIX.