PTC Therapeutics

PTCT

Biotech

Health Care

Pharma

+1

Country

US

Industry

Health Care

Market Cap

Mid Cap

Num. Employees

1402

IPO Date

Jun 20, 2013

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PTCT

Country

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Industry

Health Care

Biotech

Health Care

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PTC Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey and currently employs 1,402 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2013-06-20. The firm is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically differentiated medicines that provide benefits to patients with rare disorders. Its portfolio pipeline includes several commercial products and product candidates in various stages of development, including clinical, pre-clinical and research and discovery stages, focused on the development of new treatments for multiple therapeutic areas for rare diseases relating to neurology, metabolism and oncology. The firm has two products, Translarna (ataluren) and Emflaza (deflazacort), for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The company also offers Upstaza, a gene therapy for the treatment of Aromatic L-Amino Decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, and Evrysdi, a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Its splicing platform includes PTC518, which is being developed for the treatment of Huntington’s disease (HD).