Industry: Pharmaceutical preparations

Sector: Medical

DICE Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, builds various oral therapeutic candidates to treat chronic diseases in immunology and other therapeutic areas. Its platform DELSCAPE is designed to discover selective oral small molecules to modulate protein-protein interactions as effectively as systemic biologics. The company's lead therapeutic candidate is DC-806, an oral antagonist of the pro-inflammatory signaling molecule, interleukin-17 (IL-17) that is a validated drug target implicated in a various immunology indications. It also develops DC-853, an oral IL-17 antagonist. In addition, the company is developing oral therapeutic candidates targeting alpha 4 beta 7 integrin for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, as well as targeting alpha V beta 1/ alpha V beta 6 integrin for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Further, it focuses on programmed death-ligand 1 program, an immuno-oncology targeting antibody therapeutics. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

DICE Therapeutics is evaluated using Mavefund's quality framework: growing earnings, durable profit margins, conservative leverage, strong return on equity, and disciplined share repurchases.