Technical Analysis for ARWR - Arrowhead Research Corporation

Arrowhead Research Corporation operates as a clinical stage therapeutics company. It has development programs in oncology, obesity, and chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The company assembles a set of technologies, including Dynamic Polyconjugate platform, a RNA delivery system that addresses multiple organ systems and cell types, promotes multi-log gene knockdown in rodents and non-human primates, and induces endosomal escape; and RONDEL, a RNA delivery system for systemic siRNA delivery, and RNAi-mediated mRNA and protein knockdown in human melanoma patients. It also offers Homing Peptides platform, a library of short peptides for the development of peptide-drug conjugates and companion diagnostics. The company's principal product candidates include Adipotide, an anti-obesity peptide, which is in Phase I clinical trial for disrupting the blood supply that supports unhealthy fat by the targeted induction of apoptosis (cell death) in the vasculature of adipose tissue; ARC-520, an RNAi-based therapeutic to treat chronic HBV infection; and CALAA-01, an RNAi-based therapeutic that has completed a Phase IB clinical trial, which targets solid tumors. Its products also comprise CRLX-101 for NSC lung cancer; and Tubulin Inhibitor for oncology. The company, formerly known as InterActive Group, Inc., was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.