Prix Denali Therapeutics Inc (DNLI)

Denali Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of a portfolio of product candidates for neurodegenerative diseases. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and currently employs 517 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-12-08. The firm is focused on developing a broad portfolio of product candidates engineered to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and lysosomal storage diseases. The company has developed a technology, called the TransportVehicle (TV), to address the BBB challenge. Its advanced TV-enabled program is tividenofusp alfa (DNL310, ETV:IDS) for the potential treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis II (MPS II or Hunter syndrome). Its TV-enabled clinical development portfolio also includes DNL126 (ETV:SGSH) for MPS IIIA (Sanfilippo syndrome) and DNL593 (PTV:PGRN) for frontotemporal dementia-granulin (FTD-GRN). Its small-molecule clinical development portfolio includes BIIB122/DNL151 (small molecule LRRK2 inhibitor) for Parkinson’s disease; and DNL343 (small molecule eIF2B activator) for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The company is also exploring programs in oncology, inflammation, and other diseases.