Vaccinex Inc. Stock Analysis VCNX

Vaccinex, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York and currently employs 23 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2018-08-09. The firm is engaged in the discovery and development of targeted biotherapeutics to treat serious diseases and conditions with unmet medical needs, including neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and autoimmune disorders. Its lead product candidate, pepinemab, is in clinical development for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, head and neck, pancreatic and breast cancer. Its platform technologies include SEMA4D antibody platform and ActivMAb antibody discovery platform. Its SEMA4D antibody platform is the application of its knowledge of SEMA4D biology to develop pepinemab for the treatment of various diseases and conditions, including neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. The company also discovered VX5 using its ActivMAb platform. VX5 is a human antibody to CXCL13, a molecule that regulates the formation of immune tissues, and is in preclinical development for the treatment of autoimmune disorders.