Kainos Medicine 

Kainos Medicine, Inc. engages in research and development of various medicines for cancers, brain, and infectious diseases in South Korea and internationally. The company's product pipeline includes KM-819, which is completed Phase I clinical study for the treatment of Parkinson's disease; and KM023, a novel non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that is in Phase III clinical study to treat HIV/AIDS. It is developing anticancer agents, including DNA methyltransferase inhibitor; gene target anti-cancer agent; and Ara-C, a cytotoxic anti-cancer agent to treat acute myeloid leukemia, as well as small molecule immuno-oncology drugs that modulate anti-cancer abilities of immune cells. In addition, the company is involved in the discovery of a Hepatitis B drug. It has a collaboration agreement with Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. for the preclinical development of IRAK4 inhibitor as potential anti-cancer drug. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Seongnam-si, South Korea.