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Altay Therapeutics, previously known as Altay Therapeutics Inc, is a healthcare company located in San Carlos and South San Francisco, California. With a team of six members, Altay operates within the therapeutics sub-industry and participated in the Y-Combinator W20 batch. The company focuses on developing small molecule drugs to treat chronic liver diseases such as liver fibrosis and liver cancer, diseases affecting over 20 million Americans. Co-founder Dr. Osman Ozes, who previously led the development of Esbriet, the first FDA-approved therapy for lung fibrosis, brings significant expertise to the team, which collectively has over 70 years of experience in small molecule drug development. Altay Therapeutics has shown promising pre-clinical mouse data in several liver fibrosis models, demonstrating a reduction in fibrosis and a reversal of fibrotic tissue to normal tissue. The company aims to have a clinic-ready compound by the end of 2021 and to enter phase I clinical trials by mid-2022.

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