Edgewise Therapeutics Inc (EWTX)

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Edgewise Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing orally bioavailable, small molecule therapies for musculoskeletal diseases. The Company is principally focused on discovering, developing and commercializing treatments for rare muscle disorders. Its platform utilizes custom-built throughput and translatable systems that measure integrated muscle function in whole organ extracts to identify small molecule precision medicines regulating key proteins in muscle tissue, initially focused on addressing rare neuromuscular and cardiac diseases. The Company's lead candidate, EDG-5506, is an orally administered allosteric, selective, fast myofiber (type II) myosin small molecule inhibitor designed to address the root cause of dystrophinopathies, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). The Company's research programs include EDG-6289, EDG-002 and EDG-003.