Cheng Chi Wang

Part of Lin BioScience, Inc., Belite Bio LLC is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical drug development company based in San Diego, CA. Tinlarebant has been granted fast track designation and rare pediatric disease designation in the US and orphan drug designation in the EU for the treatment of STGD1. Belite Bio is focused on advancing novel therapeutics targeting retinal degenerative eye diseases with significant unmet medical needs, such as atrophic age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and autosomal recessive Stargardt disease, type 1, or STGD1. The private company's lead candidate, Tinlarebant, is a novel oral therapy intended to reduce the accumulation of toxins in the eye that cause STGD1 and contribute to geographic atrophy (GA). Belite Bio is currently conducting a two-year phase 2 study and enrolling patients in a two-year phase 3 study (Dragon) of Tinlarebant in adolescent STGD1 subjects and plans to begin enrolling patients in a two-year phase 3 study (Phoenix) of Tinlarebant in GA in mid-2023. The company was founded in 2016 by Cheng Chi Wang.