Foghorn Therapeutics

Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a development stage biopharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and currently employs 106 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2020-10-23. The firm is discovering and developing a novel class of medicines targeting genetically determined dependencies within the chromatin regulatory system. Through its proprietary scalable Gene Traffic Control platform, it is systematically studying, identifying and validating potential drug targets within the chromatin regulatory system. The firm is also developing multiple product candidates in oncology. The Gene Traffic Control platform provides an integrated and mechanistic understanding of how the various components of the chromatin regulatory system interact, allowing to identify, validate and potentially drug targets within this system. Its platform enables to produce components of the chromatin regulatory system at scale, thereby allowing to identify these genetic dependencies, understand their mechanism and target their vulnerabilities.