Company Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing new medicines to improve the lives of people with cancer. The Company is leveraging its switch-control kinase inhibitor platform in kinase biology to develop a portfolio of medicines. The Company's QINLOCK, is a switch-control kinase inhibitor, engineered using its drug discovery platform and developed for the treatment of fourth-line gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). In addition to QINLOCK, it has developed a robust pipeline of drug candidates using its switch-control kinase inhibitor platform, including vimseltinib and DCC-3116. Vimseltinib is an investigational, orally administered, potent, and highly-selective switch-control kinase inhibitor of colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) kinase for the potential treatment of tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT). DCC-3116 is a Phase 1/2 inhibitor of ULK kinases being developed to inhibit autophagy.

Number of employees: 355