Equillium Inc (EQ)

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Equillium, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The Company develops products for severe autoimmune and inflammatory, or immuno-inflammatory, disorders with high unmet medical need. Its initial product candidate, EQ001 (itolizumab), is a clinical-stage, monoclonal antibody that selectively targets the novel immune checkpoint receptor CD6. CD6 plays a central role in the modulation of effector T cells, or Teff cells. Activated Teff cells drive a number of immuno-inflammatory diseases across therapeutic areas including transplant science, systemic autoimmunity, pulmonary, neurologic, gastrointestinal, renal, vascular, ophthalmic and dermatologic disorders. EQ001, disease modifying treatment for multiple severe immuno-inflammatory disorders. It plans to initiate a Phase Ib/II clinical trial of EQ001 for the treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease, or aGVHD.