Histogen Inc HSTOQ

Healthcare Biotechnology

Histogen Inc. is a clinical-stage therapeutics company. The Company is focused on developing clinical and preclinical small molecule pan-caspase and caspase selective inhibitors that protect the body’s natural process to restore immune function. Its product candidates include emricasan, CTS-2090 and CTS-2096. It develops emricasan for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) as well evaluating its use for other infectious diseases. Its pipeline also includes novel preclinical product candidates including CTS-2090 and CTS-2096, which are selective small molecule inhibitors of caspase-1 designed for the treatment of certain inflammatory diseases. Emricasan is an orally available pan-caspase inhibitor designed to reduce the activities of human caspases, which are enzymes that mediate inflammation and apoptosis. CTS-2090 and CTS-2096 are selective caspase-1 inhibitors targeting inflammasome activation and to treat a variety of inflammation mediated diseases.