Bicara Therapeutics (BCAX) has filed for a proposed IPO.
The company describes itself as: "We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing transformative bifunctional therapies to patients with solid tumors. Our lead program ficerafusp alfa is a bifunctional antibody that combines two clinically validated targets, an epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR, directed monoclonal antibody with a domain that binds to human transforming growth factor beta, or TGF-b. Through this dual-targeting mechanism, ficerafusp alfa has the potential to exert potent anti-tumor activity by simultaneously blocking both cancer cell-intrinsic EGFR survival and proliferation, as well as the immunosuppressive TGF-b signaling within the tumor microenvironment, or TME. Ficerafusp alfa directs the TGF-b inhibitor into the immediate TME through the binding of EGFR on tumor cells, which we believe will lead to durable responses and an increase in overall survival, or OS, while reducing the adverse effects typically associated with systemic TGF-b inhibition. Ficerafusp alfa is initially being developed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, or HNSCC, where there remains a significant unmet need. We intend to initiate a pivotal Phase 2/3 trial of ficerafusp alfa in combination with pembrolizumab as a first-line therapy in recurrent/metastatic, or R/M, HNSCC excluding patients associated with human papillomavirus infection, or HPV-positive patients, with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, or OPSCC, late in the fourth quarter of 2024 or early in the first quarter of 2025."
Morgan Stanley, TD Cowen, Cantor and Stifel will serve as underwriters.