Unity Biotechnology, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and currently employs 16 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2018-05-03. The firm is focused on creating medicines to selectively eliminate or modulate senescent cells and thereby provide transformative benefit in age-related ophthalmologic and neurologic diseases. The company is targeting specific biological mechanisms implicated in diseases of aging. Its core therapeutic approach targets cellular senescence, and it is advancing senolytic programs primarily in ophthalmologic disorders. The company has other programs based on other biologies of aging to include an agonistic antibody to the Tie2 receptor and a Tie2/VEGF bispecific to treat vascular eye disease. UBX1325 is its advanced drug candidate for age-related diseases of the eye, including diabetic macular edema. UBX1325 is a potent small molecule inhibitor of BCL-xL. UBX2089, an a-Klotho hormone drug candidate, is being researched for multiple neurology indications.

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