OVERVIEW

Metastasis and recurrence are the primary causes of cancer mortality. Despite recent advances in molecularly targeted and immuno-oncology therapy, treating or preventing cancer recurrence and/or metastasis remains a hugely unmet clinical need. Most anti-cancer therapies are designed to shrink primary tumors but cannot prevent metastases. Invadopodia (a.k.a. “cellular feet”) are the driving force of invasion, growth, and metastasis of cancer cells in the three-dimensional microenvironments in vivo. Antapodia Therapeutics pioneers the identification of a series of "Master Invadopodial Regulator (MIRs)", which are exclusively expressed by invasive cancer cells and thereby can serve as ideal and safe therapeutic targets. The company develops first-in-class and powerful siRNA therapy and monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to target MIRs, which provides an excitingly new avenue to treating aggressive and metastatic cancers.

NANO GENE-THERAPY

Many human solid tumors, such as liver, breast, lung, and pancreatic cancers, are characterized by a highly dense fibrotic stroma termed “desmoplasia”, which impedes the penetration of therapeutics. Nanoparticle formulation is a clinically proven strategy to facilitate drug penetration in desmoplastic cancers, such as liposomal doxorubicin in breast cancer and liposomal irinotecan in pancreatic cancer. Lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-formulated small interfering RNA (siRNA) and gene-editors have recently emerged as clinically proven strategies of the precision targeting of disease driver genes. Antapodia Therapeutics combines next-generation LNPs and a novel "liver-blocking" technology to deliver invadopodia-targeted siRNA and gene editors to hepatic, non-hepatic and/or metastatic cancers, providing an exciting new aveue for treating aggressive human cancers.

AP-01 LNP-siRNA

(HCC, TNBC, SCLC)

MIR-01

AP-02 LNP-siRNA

(GAC, liver metastasis)

MIR-02

AP-03 mAb

(CRPC, GAC)

MIR-03

AP-04 LNP-base editor

MIR-01