Corcept Therapeutics Inc (CORT)

Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated, a pharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic, oncologic, and psychiatric disorders in the United States. The company offers Korlym (mifepristone) tablets as a once-daily oral medication for the treatment of hyperglycemia secondary to hypercortisolism in adult patients with endogenous Cushing's syndrome, who have type 2 diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance, and have failed surgery or are not candidates for surgery, as well as develops CLIA-validated assay to measure FKBP5 gene expression. It is developing relacorilant that is in a Phase II trial to treat patients with Cushing's syndrome; abraxane in combination with relacorilant, which is in Phase I/II open label trial to treat solid tumors; and selective cortisol modulator CORT125281 combined with Xtandi that is in open label Phase I/II trial to treat patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The company is also developing CORT118335 selective cortisol modulator, which is in Phase I/II open label trial for the treatment of antipsychotic-induced weight gain and non-alcoholic steatotic hepatitis. Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.