Noxopharm
Noxopharm Limited (ASX:NOX) is an Australian clinical-stage biotech developing oligonucleotide (Sofra™) and small-molecule (Chroma™) drug candidates for cancer, autoimmune/inflammatory disease, and mRNA vaccine enhancement, with lead asset Veyonda® in Phase 1 oncology trials.
- Company typePublic
- Founded2015
- HeadquartersTurramurra, Australia
- Headcount501–1,000
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What Noxopharm does
Noxopharm Limited (ASX:NOX) is an Australian clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Castle Hill, NSW, developing novel therapeutics across oncology, autoimmune/inflammatory disease, and mRNA vaccine enhancement. The company operates two proprietary technology platforms: Sofra™, an oligonucleotide-based platform using short nucleic acid sequences to amplify Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) activity, which the company reports achieves more than 200-fold activity improvement over current best-in-class clinical comparators in human skin biopsies; and Chroma™, a small-molecule platform generating multiple oncology drug candidates, with leading preclinical asset CRO-67 positioned for pancreatic cancer.
The company's clinical pipeline centres on Veyonda®, which is in a Phase 1 investigator-initiated trial for cancer in combination with immunotherapy, alongside earlier-stage assets including CRO-67 (Chroma™ platform, pancreatic cancer preclinical) and SOF-VAC (Sofra™ platform, mRNA vaccine safety/efficacy improvement). Noxopharm is pre-revenue with no marketed products; its economic model is structured around a dual-track strategy of developing selected compounds in-house while pursuing external commercial arrangements (out-licensing, co-development, and partnerships with pharmaceutical companies) for other assets. The corporate group comprises Noxopharm Limited as the listed parent and wholly-owned subsidiary Pharmorage Pty Limited (a drug delivery/formulation entity). Recent strategic milestones include the granting of US patent protection for the Sofra™ platform in October 2025 and the May 2026 disclosure of new TLR8 amplification data, signalling continued platform validation and US-market intent.
Noxopharm firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Noxopharm
- Legal name
- Noxopharm Limited
- Website
- https://noxopharm.com
- Company type
- Public
- Founded year
- 2015
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 501–1,000 employees
- Short description
- Noxopharm Limited (ASX:NOX) is an Australian clinical-stage biotech developing oligonucleotide (Sofra™) and small-molecule (Chroma™) drug candidates for cancer, autoimmune/inflammatory disease, and mRNA vaccine enhancement, with lead asset Veyonda® in Phase 1 oncology trials.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Noxopharm industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical drug development
- NAICS
- Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) (541714), Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing (325412)
- SIC
- Pharmaceutical Preparations (2834)
- akta.pro primary industry
- RNA Therapeutics Platforms & Design (sequence design, target ID/validation, AI/bioinformatics) (HLAAADAG)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Immuno-Oncology & Immune Monitoring Biomarkers (TMB, MSI, MRD, immune profiling) (HLAAAMAK), Oncology Diagnostics (tumor profiling, MRD, liquid biopsy) (HLAAALAE), Antisense Oligonucleotides (ASO) Therapeutics (splice modulation/knockdown) (HLAAADAC)
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Where Noxopharm is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Turramurra
- HQ country
- Australia
- HQ region
- Oceania
Offices1 record
Markets served
Noxopharm business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others
Revenue model
- Pre-revenue R&D / future licensing: Noxopharm is a clinical-stage biotech with no products on the market and therefore no product revenue. The company's economic model relies on capital raises (as an ASX-listed entity) and is structured around developing a pipeline of proprietary drugs across multiple platforms, with the explicit intent to develop certain compounds in-house while pursuing external commercial arrangements (licensing/out-licensing deals, co-development) for others. Future revenue is expected to be derived from licensing royalties, milestone payments, and eventual drug sales once candidates (Veyonda®, CRO-67, SOF-VAC) reach market.
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels2 records
Marketing channels7 records
Noxopharm product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Noxopharm is a clinical-stage Australian biotech that develops novel drug candidates for cancer and inflammation through two proprietary technology platforms: Sofra™, an oligonucleotide-based platform that amplifies Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) activity for immuno-oncology, autoimmune/inflammatory disease, and mRNA vaccine enhancement, and Chroma™, a small-molecule oncology platform producing candidates such as preclinical CRO-67 for pancreatic cancer. Its lead clinical asset Veyonda® is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 investigator-initiated trial for cancer in combination with immunotherapy, while the SOF-VAC program applies the Sofra™ platform to improve the safety profile of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.
Product overview
Noxopharm Limited (ASX:NOX) is a clinical-stage Australian biotech company built on a multi-platform architecture rather than a single unified product. Its portfolio is anchored by two proprietary technology platforms — Sofra™, an oligonucleotide-based platform (short nucleic acid sequences) targeting inflammation, autoimmunity, mRNA drug enhancement and immuno-oncology (including TLR8-amplifying compounds), and Chroma™, a small-molecule platform driving multiple cancer drug candidates. On top of these platforms sits Veyonda®, the company's lead clinical drug candidate currently in a Phase 1 investigator-initiated trial for cancer in combination with immunotherapy, while preclinical assets such as CRO-67 (from Chroma™, focused on pancreatic cancer) and application modules like SOF-VAC (mRNA vaccine improvement under Sofra™) extend the pipeline across cancer and inflammatory disease indications.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Sofra™: Technology platform with a pipeline of new proprietary drugs based on oligonucleotides (short strands of DNA/RNA building blocks), focused on mRNA vaccines and therapeutics, autoimmune disease and immuno-oncology.
- Chroma™
- Veyonda®
Products and services
- Sofra™ Sofra™ is an oligonucleotide-based technology platform using short nucleic acid sequences that amplifies Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) activity, with applications spanning mRNA vaccine enhancement, autoimmune and inflammatory disease treatment, and immuno-oncology. It serves as the foundation for a pipeline of new proprietary drug candidates and is supported by granted US patent protection.
- Chroma™ Chroma™ is a small-molecule technology platform focused on developing multiple drug candidates primarily for cancer treatment, with leading preclinical candidate CRO-67 showing promising signals for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
- Veyonda® Veyonda® is Noxopharm's clinical-stage drug candidate currently in a Phase 1 investigator-initiated clinical trial for the treatment of cancer in combination with immunotherapy.
- CRO-67 CRO-67 is the leading preclinical drug candidate from Noxopharm's Chroma™ small-molecule platform, showing promising signals for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
- SOF-VAC SOF-VAC is an application program of the Sofra™ platform aimed at improving the safety profile and effectiveness of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics by reducing side effects and enhancing safety.
Companies that use Noxopharm
Customer profileSegments3 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Noxopharm technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature4 records
Noxopharm partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
One partnership is on record.
- Pharmorage Pty LimitedcorePharmorage Pty Limited (ACN 641 047 403) is listed as part of the Noxopharm Group of companies in Noxopharm's Privacy Policy and is featured as a dedicated page under the About Us section of the company's website. The Privacy Policy expressly states that the policy applies to each company in the Noxopharm Group, indicating Pharmorage is a related corporate entity operating within the same group structure.
Scale indicators5 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Noxopharm competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- MiNA Therapeutics: Clinical-stage UK biotech developing RNA-based therapeutics that engage innate immune pathways, including TLR8 agonism in oncology. Directly comparable to Noxopharm's Sofra™ platform as one of the few companies publicly pursuing oligonucleotide-based TLR8 immuno-oncology strategies.
- Imugene: Australian (ASX-listed) clinical-stage immuno-oncology company with a pipeline of B-cell vaccines, oncolytic viruses, and combination immunotherapies. Most directly comparable ASX peer in terms of size, stage, and immuno-oncology focus, allowing direct read-across on clinical and capital-markets dynamics.
- Bolt Biotherapeutics: US clinical-stage immuno-oncology company developing immune-stimulating antibody conjugates that activate myeloid and antigen-presenting cells in the tumour microenvironment. Comparable to Noxopharm's ambition of combining tumour-targeting with immune activation, though using a different payload architecture.
Emerging players
- Compugen: Clinical-stage immuno-oncology company using computational discovery to identify novel drug targets and develop antibody-based therapeutics. Comparable in therapeutic area and stage, and provides a useful read-across for AI-driven target discovery applied to immune checkpoints and tumour microenvironment.
- Arcturus Therapeutics: Clinical-stage mRNA medicines company with self-amplifying RNA technology and partnerships in vaccines and rare disease. Comparable as a smaller, technology-focused mRNA company that partners with larger pharma, mirroring the out-licensing model Noxopharm intends to use for SOF-VAC.
- Werewolf Therapeutics: US clinical-stage biotech developing tumour-activated immune-stimulating prodrugs (PREDATOR platform) for immuno-oncology. Comparable as an early-stage company engineering conditional immune activation in the tumour microenvironment, similar in spirit to Noxopharm's combination-immunotherapy positioning.
Broad incumbents
- BioNTech: Global leader in mRNA therapeutics and vaccines with deep immuno-oncology pipeline. Relevant as a broad incumbent for the SOF-VAC mRNA-vaccine enhancement opportunity and as a benchmark for valuation of immuno-oncology platforms at scale.
- Moderna: Global mRNA platform company with commercial COVID-19 vaccine and an oncology pipeline. Provides relevant context for the mRNA-enhancement and oncology applications of Noxopharm's SOF-VAC program and for sizing the long-term opportunity if Sofra™ becomes a standard mRNA adjuvant.
Regional players
- Telix Pharmaceuticals: Australian (ASX-listed) commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals for cancer. Comparable as a successful Australian oncology biotech but at a much later commercial stage; provides relevant comparables on Australian biotech valuation and capital-markets access.
- PharmAust: Australian (ASX-listed) clinical-stage biotech developing small-molecule oncology drugs, including for pancreatic cancer. Comparable as a domestic Australian clinical-stage peer with oncology focus, although the underlying mechanism (Chroma™ small molecules) is mechanistically distinct.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat3 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights5 records
Customer concentration
Noxopharm social profiles
Digital presenceNoxopharm compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance1 record
Noxopharm financial estimates
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Noxopharm leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles1 record
Noxopharm subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries1 record
Noxopharm funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds2 records
Investors1 record
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Noxopharm M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Noxopharm
What does Noxopharm do?
Noxopharm is a clinical-stage Australian biotech that develops novel drug candidates for cancer and inflammation through two proprietary technology platforms: Sofra™, an oligonucleotide-based platform that amplifies Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) activity for immuno-oncology, autoimmune/inflammatory disease, and mRNA vaccine enhancement, and Chroma™, a small-molecule oncology platform producing candidates such as preclinical CRO-67 for pancreatic cancer. Its lead clinical asset Veyonda® is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 investigator-initiated trial for cancer in combination with immunotherapy, while the SOF-VAC program applies the Sofra™ platform to improve the safety profile of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.
Is Noxopharm a public or private company?
Noxopharm is a public company. It is classified as public and is currently operating.
When was Noxopharm founded?
Noxopharm was founded in 2015. It employs 501 to 1,000 people.
Where is Noxopharm based?
Noxopharm is headquartered in Turramurra, Australia, in the Oceania region.
How does Noxopharm make money?
One revenue line is on record: pre-revenue R&D / future licensing.
Who are Noxopharm's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are MiNA Therapeutics, Imugene and Bolt Biotherapeutics. Emerging players are Compugen, Arcturus Therapeutics and Werewolf Therapeutics. Broad incumbents are BioNTech and Moderna. Regional players are Telix Pharmaceuticals and PharmAust.
Does Noxopharm have an API?
No public API is recorded for Noxopharm.
What industry is Noxopharm in?
Noxopharm's product category is Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical drug development. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HLAAADAG, RNA Therapeutics Platforms & Design (sequence design, target ID/validation, AI/bioinformatics), with a secondary code of HLAAAMAK, Immuno-Oncology & Immune Monitoring Biomarkers (TMB, MSI, MRD, immune profiling). Its NAICS code is 541714 and its SIC code is 2834.