Description
Active Biotech AB (publ), a biotechnology company, engages in the research, development, and production of pharmaceutical products in Sweden. It is developing Tasquinimod, a small molecule immunomodulator, which is in Phase Ib/IIa clinical trial to treat relapsed refractory multiple myeloma; Laquinimod, a mechanism which is in phase 1 for the treatment of severe inflammatory eye diseases, such as non-infectious uveitis; Tasquinimod, an orally active small molecule immunomodulator that blocks tumor-promoting signals in the bone marrow microenvironment which is in phase I/II for the treatment of hematological cancers, such as myelofibrosis and multiple myeloma; and Naptumomab, an immunotherapy, which is in phase Ib/II study to treat patients with solid tumors. The company has collaboration with Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas ans Stictching-Haemato-Oncologie Volwassenen Netherlands, as well as Stanford Medicine and the Global Ophthalmic Research Center. The company was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.