EXELIXIS INC (EXEL)

Company Profile

Exelixis, Inc. operates as an oncology company, which focuses on discovering, developing, and commercialization of new medicines for difficult-to-treat cancers. The company is headquartered in Alameda, California and currently employs 1,223 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2000-04-11. The firm is engaged in developing medicines and combination regimens at the forefront of cancer care. The company has four products, including its flagship molecule, cabozantinib, which is an inhibitor of multiple tyrosine kinases, including MET, AXL, VEGF receptors and RET. Cabozantinib is approved as CABOMETYX tablets used for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), both alone and in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company's (BMS) OPDIVO (nivolumab), for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and for radioactive iodine (RAI)-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Cabozantinib is also approved as COMETRIQ capsules for metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). Its other two products are COTELLIC, an inhibitor of MEK approved as part of multiple combination regimens to treat specific forms of advanced melanoma and MINNEBRO an oral, non-steroidal, selective blocker of the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) approved the treatment of hypertension.

Company Info

EXELIXIS INC

1851 Harbor Bay Parkway

Alameda CALIFORNIA 94502

P: 16508377000.0

CEO: Michael M. Morrissey

Employees: 1223

Website: https://www.exelixis.com/