Genkyotex SA

Genkyotex SA (GKTX.PA) Company Profile & Overview

Genkyotex SA, a biopharmaceutical company, develops oral small molecule NOX therapies. Its platform enables the identification of orally available small-molecules that selectively inhibit NOX enzymes amplifying various disease processes, such as fibrosis, inflammation, pain processing, cancer development, and neurodegeneration. The company's lead product candidate is GKT831, a NOX1 and NOX4 inhibitor, which is evaluated in a Phase II clinical trial in primary biliary cholangitis a fibrotic orphan disease and in an investigator-initiated Phase II clinical trial in type 1 diabetes and kidney disease. Its preclinical stage product candidate is GKT771, a NOX1 inhibitor targeting various pathways in pain processing and inflammation. Genkyotex SA has a license agreement with Serum Institute of India Ltd. for GTL003, an antigen for use in the development of acellular multivalent combination vaccines against a variety of infectious diseases. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Labège, France.