Xynomic Pharmaceuticals is a Chinese-American biotech that licensed the histone deacetylase inhibitor abexinostat from Pharmacyclics and is testing it with pazopanib in kidney cancer and alone in lymphoma.
Xynomic Pharmaceuticals is an oncology company with operations in Zhongshan, Guangdong and the San Francisco Bay Area. Its lead asset is abexinostat, a pan-histone deacetylase inhibitor in-licensed from Pharmacyclics (now part of AbbVie), which it has taken into a phase 3 trial with pazopanib in renal cell carcinoma and into follicular lymphoma studies in China. It also holds rights to the pan-RAF inhibitor XP-102 and other clinical-stage assets.
Abexinostat is an experimental small-molecule drug from Xynomic Pharmaceuticals in phase 3 trials for renal cell carcinoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma, with its target not yet stated publicly.