Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc

NASDAQ:RIGL

Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biotechnology company. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and currently employs 165 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2000-11-29. The firm is engaged in discovering, developing and providing small molecule drugs that improve the lives of patients with hematologic disorders, cancer and rare immune diseases. The firm's research focuses on signaling pathways that are critical to disease mechanisms. The firm's product, TAVALISSE (fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate) tablets, the spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) inhibitor, for the treatment of adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). The Company’s product is also commercially available in Europe, the United Kingdom (UK) (TAVLESSE) and Canada (TAVALISSE) for the treatment of chronic ITP in adult patients. Its clinical programs include its interleukin receptor-associated kinase (IRAK) inhibitor program and a receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase (RIPK1) inhibitor program in clinical development with partner Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly).