Agios Pharmaceuticals Company

Agios Pharmaceuticals is a public American pharmaceutical company focused on developing small-molecule anti-cancer therapeutics targeting cancer cell metabolism via the growth factor pathway. Among the proteins under investigation by the company are IDH1 and IDH2. The company was founded in 2008 (or 2007) by Lewis Cantley, Tak Mak and Craig Thompson. Agios is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.