C4 Therapeutics, Inc. Appoints Kelly Schick as Chief People Officer

C4 Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It is focused on advancing targeted protein degradation science to create a new generation of small-molecule medicines that transform patients’ lives. By leveraging its proprietary Target ORiented ProtEin Degrader Optimizer (TORPEDO) platform, to design and optimize small molecule protein degraders that are active against their desired targets by harnessing the body’s natural process for destroying unwanted proteins. Its TORPEDO platform has the capability to design two types of protein degraders and both degrader approaches are reflected in its clinical pipeline. Its product candidate, CFT7455, is an orally bioavailable MonoDAC degrader of protein targets called IKZF1 and IKZF3, which are in clinical development for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Its CFT1946 is an orally bioavailable BiDAC degrader designed to be potent and selective against BRAF V600X mutant proteins. It is also developing CFT8919.