Sentrimed

Sentrimed is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company creating safer, orally dosed oncology therapies that target the cancer biomarker podoplanin (PDPN). PDPN is a transmembrane glycoprotein receptor that enables cancer cells to proliferate and migrate. This biomarker appears early in cancer transformation, persists through malignant progression, and causes poor clinical outcomes. As a result, targeting PDPN could represent an important advancement in the profiling and treatment of cancer. The Company’s lead product candidate, MASL, is an orally administered therapeutic that targets the PDPN receptor. MASL is a leader in a new drug class called oncolectins and represents a novel approach to addressing common challenges in oncology treatments, including drug resistance and highly immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments—which contribute to high recurrence rates and poor patient outcomes. Blocking PDPN by MASL inhibits cancer by altering pathways critical to tumor growth, invasion, evasion and resistance - specifically RAS-GTP, TGF-β SMAD, JAK-STAT, and WNT/β-catenin. Additionally, MASL triggers necrotic cell death, which causes host anti-tumor immune responses.