Our Pipeline
XC001: Refractory Angina – Phase 1/2 Complete
XC001 is an investigational gene therapy for the treatment of patients with refractory angina with no treatment options. Patients who have exhausted pharmacologic options and are not eligible for PCI or coronary artery bypass grafts become sedentary because of their symptoms and this can exacerbate comorbidities causing rapid deterioration of their health status and results in a poor quality of life because of the associated chest pain caused by the ischemia when even moderate physical exertion occurs. XC001 is designed to stimulate the formation of new coronary blood vessels to serve areas of the heart that are not receiving adequate blood supply. This treatment strategy is based on both pre-clinical and clinical evidence and should enable the patients to become less limited in their daily activities because of debilitating chest pain. An Investigational New Drug (IND) application for XC001 is open with the FDA. Enrollment in the Refractory Angina trial is complete.
XC001: Adjunct to CABG – Discovery Phase
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery or CABG is a procedure used to treat coronary artery disease – the narrowing or blockage of the blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to the heart muscle. During CABG, a healthy artery or vein from the body is connected, or grafted, to the blocked coronary artery. The grafted artery or vein bypasses the blocked portion of the coronary artery. This creates a new passage, and oxygen‑rich blood is routed around the blockage to the heart muscle. Approximately 500,000 CABG procedures are performed annually in the United States, in which an estimated one‑third of patients are at risk for incomplete coronary revascularization, often resulting in persistent angina. An adjunctive treatment to CABG, such as gene therapy with XC001, may reduce the incidence of incomplete revascularization.
XC002 – Discovery stage
XC002 is the second XyloCor program and it is being developed for regeneration of cardiac tissue in patients who have poorly functioning hearts as a result of past heart attacks and resulting heart failure. XC002 has transformed non-functioning cardiac cells into function cardiac cells in animal models.