Metaphore Pharmaceuticals

Metaphore Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a privately held emerging pharmaceutical company with offices in Fort Lee, New Jersey and St. Louis, MO. The company leverages its expertise to discover and develop small molecule compounds that mimic the function of superoxide dismutase, a beneficial enzyme that serves an important protective role in the body by removing superoxide, a toxic free radical that can damage cells and tissues. Superoxide anions are implicated in a wide variety of diseases associated with pain and inflammation. Metaphore currently focuses its clinical development efforts in pain, arthritis and inflammatory disorders which represent significant markets in terms of scope and size.