GRITSTONE BIO INC (GRTS)

Company Profile

Gritstone bio, Inc. clinical-stage biotechnology company, which engages in developing the next generation of cancer immunotherapies to fight multiple cancer types. The company is headquartered in Emeryville, California and currently employs 233 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2018-09-28. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and delivers next generation cancer and infectious disease immunotherapy candidates by vaccine vectors, self-amplifying mRNA (samRNA) and chimpanzee adenovirus (ChAd). Its two oncology programs in clinical-stage development are GRANITE, individualized neoantigen-based immunotherapy, and SLATE, an off-the-shelf shared neoantigen-based immunotherapy. The company has an infectious disease pipeline, which includes two programs in clinical-stage development: CORAL, a second-generation COVID-19 vaccine program that may have pan-coronavirus potential to protect against future coronavirus pandemics, and an HIV therapeutic/cure vaccine candidate. In oncology, it develops personalized vaccines that aim to destroy tumors through CD8+ (killer) T cell recognition of tumor cells by virtue of their surface display of neoantigens, peptides that are presented on cancer cells when certain mutations occur in tumor DNA.

Company Info

GRITSTONE BIO INC

5959 Horton Street, Suite 300

Emeryville CALIFORNIA 94608

P: 15108716100

CEO: Andrew Allen

Employees: 233

Website: https://gritstonebio.com/