Industry: Health Care – Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations
Stock Symbol: EWTX – NASDAQ
Animal Usage: Animal Testing
Edgewise 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 used a SOMAscan aptamer-based high-throughput proteomics platform to determine if other proteins, beyond CK, change in plasma in response to treatment with EDG-5506. As expected, GRMD control plasma samples exhibited many protein differences compared to healthy dogs, reflecting the serious skeletal muscle pathology of these animals.” (Page 122) Read the full document
Edgewise Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing orally bioavailable, small molecule therapies for musculoskeletal diseases. The Company is principally focused on discovering, developing and commercializing treatments for rare muscle disorders.
Company Website: https://edgewisetx.com