Atea Pharmaceuticals

Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical stage company, which focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing antiviral therapeutics. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and currently employs 55 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2020-10-30. The firm is focused on discovering, developing and commercializing oral antiviral therapies to address the unmet medical needs of patients with serious viral infections. The firm has built a proprietary nucleos(t)ide prodrug platform to develop product candidates to treat single-stranded ribonucleic acid (ssRNA) viruses, which are a prevalent cause of serious viral diseases. The Company’s lead program and focus is on the development of the regimen of bemnifosbuvir, a nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor, and ruzasvir, an investigational, potent, small-molecule inhibitor of hepatitis C virus (HCV) non-structural protein 5A (NS5A), an essential protein for HCV replication. Bemnifosbuvir is an investigational, orally administered guanosine nucleotide double prodrug which targets the HCV non-structural protein 5B (NS5B) RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and inhibits HCV replication.