Eleven Biotherapeutics Fund Company Profile

Description

Eleven Biotherapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of protein therapeutics to treat eye diseases primarily in the United States. The company develops its therapeutics through AMP-Rx, a proprietary protein engineering platform. Its lead product candidate is EBI-005, which has completed Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of patients with dry eye disease and allergic conjunctivitis. The company is also developing EBI-031 that is in preclinical development to treat diabetic macular edema; and a product candidate as an intravitreal injection for the treatment of certain retinal diseases, such as wet age-related macular degeneration. Eleven Biotherapeutics, Inc. has a collaboration and license agreement with ThromboGenics N.V. to identify protein or peptide therapeutics that directly modulate any of a specified set of targets in a novel pathway in retinal disease. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.