APLS - Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc
Region: US
Website: http://apellis.com/
Employees: 794
IPO year: -
Issue type: Common Stock
Market: XNAS
Industry: Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)
Sector: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
apellis pharmaceuticals is an early stage biotechnology company applying immunotherapy to auto-immune diseases, with an initial emphasis on diseases of the lungs such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd), diseases of the retina such as age-related macular degeneration (amd), and rare hematological diseases such as paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (pnh). apellis believes that targeting a key element in the immune system called the complement system can have profound disease modifying benefits. we call this approach complement immunotherapy.