NVO vs ONCT

Novo Nordisk A/S

Novo Nordisk A/S, a healthcare company, engages in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of pharmaceutical products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Diabetes and Obesity care, and Biopharm. The Diabetes and Obesity care segment provides products in the areas of insulins, GLP-1 and related delivery systems, oral antidiabetic products, obesity, and other chronic diseases. The Biopharmaceuticals segment offers products in the areas of haemophilia, growth disorders, and hormone replacement therapy. The company collaboration agreements with Lund University to develop treatment for Parkinson's diseases; and bluebird bio, Inc. to develop genome editing treatments for children and adult patients. Novo Nordisk A/S also has a research collaboration with Lumen Bioscience, Inc. to explore strategies for delivering oral biologics for cardiometabolic disease. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Bagsvaerd, Denmark.

Oncternal Therapeutics Inc.

Oncternal Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development of oncology therapies for cancers with critical unmet medical need. Its pipeline includes cirmtuzumab, an investigational monoclonal antibody that is being evaluated in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial in combination with ibrutinib for the treatment of patients with B-cell lymphoid malignancies, including mantle cell lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The company also develops a chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy that targets Receptor tyrosine kinase-like Orphan Receptor 1, which is in preclinical development as a potential treatment for hematologic cancers and solid tumors. In addition, it is developing TK216, an investigational small molecule that inhibits the E26 Transformation Specific family of oncoproteins. Oncternal Therapeutics, Inc. has license agreements with the Regents of the University of California; Georgetown University; Shanghai Pharmaceutical (USA) Inc.; Selexis S.A.; and University of Tennessee Research Foundation. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California.