Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of patient-, physician-, caregiver-, and societal-friendly medicinal therapies intended to improve quality of life, increase potential duration of life, and resolve serious unmet medical needs.
Our leadership team has a proven track record in all aspects of drug development, regulatory approval, and commercialization, with focus on placing patients first, and high-speed execution in commercialization.
We are committed to leadership in resolving serious, unmet medical needs for the betterment of overall human health. Our mission is to make a significant difference for patients with high unmet medical needs, focusing on oncology. Our lead pipeline product candidate is a novel, bispecific antibody targeting both PD-1 and VEGF, ivonescimab. Summit has enacted the path to helping patients while creating opportunities for durable growth as a company by initiating several Phase 3 trials with the novel drug, ivonescimab.
In January 2023, we finalized our collaboration and license agreement with Akeso Inc. (HKEX Code: 9926.HK, “Akeso”) for ivonescimab. The Summit license territories for ivonescimab include United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America (including Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean), the Middle East, and Africa. We initiated two phase 3 clinical trials with ivonescimab in 2023 and are positioning the company to advance its oncology pipeline in 2024 and beyond.