GRI Bio Inc

GRI Bio, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of therapies for inflammatory, fibrotic, and autoimmune diseases. The company is headquartered in La Jolla, California and currently employs 4 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2021-02-10. The Company’s therapies are designed to target the activity of Natural Killer T (NKT) cells, which are key regulators earlier in the inflammatory cascade, to interrupt disease progression and restore the immune system to homeostasis. Its lead program, GRI-0621, is an inhibitor of iNKT cell activity and is being developed as a novel oral therapeutic for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The firm is also developing a pipeline of novel type II diverse NKT agonists for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus. Its product candidate portfolio also includes GRI-0803 and a proprietary library of more than 500 compounds. The company is developing GRI-0803 for the treatment of autoimmune disorders, with much of its preclinical work in systemic lupus erythematosus disease (SLE) and multiple sclerosis (MS).