Our Opinion

Compass Therapeutics Inc. is on the Cruelty Free Investing use of animals list because they conduct pre-clinical studies of their drugs on animals to assess a product’s safety profile.

Supporting Evidence:

The company stated in the following report that they exploit animals for product testing.

“We have shown in animal models that CTX-8371 was associated with greater antitumor activity than a PD-1 inhibitor, a PD-L1 inhibitor or a combination of the two. We plan to begin IND-enabling studies with CTX-8371 in the third quarter of 2020.” (Page 2) Read the full document

Company Description

Compass Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage, oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing antibody-based therapeutics to treat multiple human diseases. Its pipeline of product candidates includes both angiogenesis-targeted agents and immune-oncology focused agents. These product candidates are designed for anti-tumor response to cancer. Its lead product candidate, CTX-471, is a monoclonal antibody agonist of CD137, a co-stimulatory receptor on immune cells. Its second product candidate, CTX-8371, is a bispecific antibody that simultaneously targets both PD-1 and PD-L1, the targets of checkpoint inhibitor antibodies.

Company Website: https://www.compasstherapeutics.com