Great progress has been made in the development of new drugs to treat cancer and other serious illness. However, these therapies are often administered at suboptimal doses because of their effects on healthy tissue. The value of these therapies is further diminished because of the inability to predict in advance if a patient will respond to a particular therapy. Endocyte is addressing both of these issues using a new "drug guidance" technology.

Drug Guidance System
Endocyte's novel drug guidance system is designed to improve the specificity, safety, and efficacy of potent drugs by targeting them directly to diseased cells. Our technology can be used to deliver a variety of drug therapies, from small molecule cancer drugs to larger proteins and RNA-based therapies.

Predictive Medicine
Endocyte is also developing powerful companion diagnostic agents (such as EC20 and EC0652) that are designed to predict in advance if a patient will respond to our drug therapy. By linking our drug guidance system to a diagnostic imaging agent, we can generate a patient-specific targeting profile to help identify likely responders. Click here to see an example diagnostic image.

Strong Clinical Stage Pipeline
Today, Endocyte has six targeted cancer drugs in clinical trials. We believe our patented technology may also have applications in developing better drugs to treat diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and atherosclerosis. This proprietary technology is being used today by a number of drug companies in collaboration with Endocyte.