Altimmune, Inc.

Altimmune, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing treatments for obesity, metabolic, and liver diseases. The company’s lead product candidate, pemvidutide, a GLP-1/glucagon dual receptor agonist, which is in Phase 3 trial for the treatment of obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis. The company was formerly known as Vaxin Inc. and changed its name to Altimmune, Inc. in September 2015. Altimmune, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.