GPCR

Structure Therapeutics Inc., an international biopharmaceutical company currently in its clinical development phase, is committed to creating and providing groundbreaking oral therapies for various chronic diseases that lack adequate treatment options. The company's primary investigational drug, GSBR-1290, is an orally administered, biased small molecule agonist designed to target the glucagon-like-peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R). This G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) is a recognized and validated therapeutic target for managing both type-2 diabetes mellitus and obesity. Furthermore, Structure Therapeutics is developing other oral small molecule treatments that act on different GPCRs, addressing pulmonary and cardiovascular conditions. For example, ANPA-0073 is a biased agonist aimed at the apelin receptor, a GPCR linked to diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Another compound in their pipeline is LTSE-2578, an oral small molecule that acts as a lysophosphatidic acid 1 receptor antagonist, also being explored for the treatment of IPF. Established in 2016, the company was formerly known as ShouTi Inc. and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.