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Toray Industries
aka Toray, 東レ, TSE:3402
Toray Industries is the Japanese materials group, known for carbon fibre and synthetic fibres, whose pharmaceutical division created the antibody TRK-950 against CAPRIN-1, a protein found on many solid tumours.
Overview
Toray Industries is a Tokyo-based chemicals and materials company whose pharmaceutical business makes the pruritus drug nalfurafine and interferon-beta. TRK-950 is a humanised antibody against CAPRIN-1 (cytoplasmic activation/proliferation-associated protein 1), a cytoplasmic protein that Toray found on the surface of breast, ovarian, gastric and other cancer cells; it is in phase 1/2 trials alone and with chemotherapy and checkpoint inhibitors in solid tumours.
Headquarters
Tokyo, JP
Scorecard
All companies#392of 1181 companies, score 8
- phase 1/2 +1
- targets +2
- modalities +2
- registry trials +3
0 approved, 0 in phase 3, 1 earlier, 1 targets, 2 registry studies. Formula on the scorecards page.
Type
pharma · TSE:3402
Stage
Public
Website
Founded
1926