SectorBiotechnology Ⅲ
Established Date05/11/1996
Listing Date05/11/2014
ExchangeNASDAQ Stock Exchange
Full-time Employees370
Fiscal Year Ends31/12
Security TypeCommon stock
Office address3650 Gilmore Way, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5G 4W8
BusinessDevelops and delivers neuroscience therapeutics.
IntroductionXenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., was incorporated in British Columbia on November 5, 1996 under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) under the name of its predecessor, Xenon Bioresearch Inc. The company is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops a pipeline of differentiated therapies for orphans. The company intends to commercialize itself for a larger market and intends to establish partnerships with global pharmaceutical companies. In order to develop symptomatic drugs, the company has established a core enabling discovery platform by studying rare human diseases with extreme characteristics, including diseases caused by ion channel mutations, also known as ion channel gene mutation diseases. The company has an integrated platform that includes internal functions such as human genetics, small molecule drug discovery and preclinical and clinical development.