Eloxx Pharmaceuticals

Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops small-molecule product candidates that modulate the ribosome and promote readthrough of premature stop codons caused by nonsense mutations in the United States, Israel, and Australia. The company is developing exaluren, a eukaryotic ribosome-selective glycoside in a Phase 2 trial for the treatment of rare kidney diseases, including Alport syndrome with nonsense mutations, cystic fibrosis with nonsense mutations, and nephropathic cystinosis with nonsense mutations, as well as in a preclinical stage for the treatment of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease with nonsense mutations. It has collaboration with Almirall, S.A. to develop and commercialize ZKN-013, an oral ribosome modulating agent for the treatment of rare skin diseases, such as recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa and junctional epidermolysis bullosa with nonsense mutations.