Traws Pharma

Formely known as Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. Traws Pharma is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule oral product candidates for respiratory viral diseases and cancer. In the viral respiratory disease space, Traws Pharma is developing an oral inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro (3CL protease), and a new oral antiviral drug candidate for influenza, which targets the influenza cap-dependent endonuclease and has shown potency in cell based assays against drug resistant viruses and avian flu. In cancer, we are developing a novel, proprietary multi-kinase CDK4-plus inhibitor, narazaciclib, for refractory endometrial and metastatic breast cancer. Narazaciclib targets pathways involved in the development of resistance to this class of drugs.