Ocean Biomedical Inc.

Ocean Biomedical, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering and developing therapeutic products in oncology, fibrosis, and infectious diseases in the United States. The company develops an antibody therapeutic product candidate inhibiting Chi3l1, and a bi-specific antibody product candidate inhibiting Chi3l1 plus PD-1 and CTLA-4 for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer and glioblastoma multiforme; and a small molecule product candidate targeting Chit1 for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. It is also developing three product candidates based on the whole proteome differential screening target discovery platform, including a malaria vaccine candidate against plasmodium falciparum Schizont Egress Antigen-1 (PfSEA-1) and/or against plasmodium falciparum Glutamic Acid Rich Protein (PfGARP); a humanized mAb malaria therapeutic candidate targeting PfGARP; and a small molecule malaria product candidate targeting PfGARP. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island. Ocean Biomedical, Inc. is a subsidiary of Poseidon Bio, LLC.