Ziopharm Oncology 

ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering, acquiring, developing, and commercializing a portfolio of immuno-oncology therapies for treating heterogenous solid tumors and unknown antigens. The company develops two immuno-oncology platform technologies, including Sleeping Beauty (SB), which is based on the genetic engineering of immune cells using a non-viral transposon/transposase system to reprogram T-cells outside of the body for infusion; and Controlled IL-12, which delivers interleukin 12 or IL-12, a master regular of the immune system, in a controlled and safe manner to focus the patient's immune system to attack cancer cells. It is developing Ad-RTS-hIL-12 plus veledimex, which is in Phase 2 clinical trial, to treat patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme in adults. The company is also developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell and T-cell receptor T-cell therapies. ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. has license agreement with Precigen, Inc. and MD Anderson Cancer Center; collaboration with MD Anderson targeting CD19 on malignant B cells using Sleeping Beauty platform; and research and development agreement with the National Cancer Institute to evaluate autologous peripheral blood lymphocytes, and Ares Trading S.A. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.