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IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS

IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS is a pharma organization headquartered in Boston, USA. It trades on NYSE under ticker IRWD. Primary therapeutic focus areas include Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Constipation, Chronic Constipatio

100 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110, US HQ
1998 Founded
262 Employees
Public company Type
IRWD · NYSE Ticker
Company details
Status
Public
HQ
100 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110, US
Founded
1998
Employees
262
Programs
33
Drugs
11
Patents
45

Quick answer

IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS is a pharma organization headquartered in Boston, USA. It trades on NYSE under ticker IRWD. Primary therapeutic focus areas include Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Constipation, Chronic Constipation, Constipation, Irritable Bowel Syndrome Characterized by Constipation, Interstitial Cystitis. NovaPharmaNews links 33 clinical program(s), 1 drug profile(s), and 45 patent record(s) to this entity from public FDA, EMA, ClinicalTrials.gov, and USPTO sources. Pipeline phase mix: phase 2 (15), phase 3 (11), approved (3).

Company snapshot

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. It was originally called Microbia, Inc. Microbia was founded by postdocs from the lab of [Gerald Fink](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Fink) at the [Whitehead Institute](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehead_Institut) to commercialize approaches that had been developed in the lab to improve [industrial fermentation](en.wikipedia.or

  • 2 approved product(s) across US/EU regulatory metadata.
  • 33 active pipeline program(s) linked via ClinicalTrials.gov.
  • 45 US patent(s) indexed to this assignee profile.

Public regulatory, clinical, patent, and corporate records for IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS. Not investment advice.

Lead pipeline drugs

Active clinical programs

  • IW-3718 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
    Phase 3
  • LIN-MD-66 Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Constipation
    Phase 3
  • Linaclotide Chronic Idiopathic Constipation
    Phase 3
  • Linaclotide Functional Constipation
    Phase 3

Momentum

Proprietary activity score for IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS.

1 active signal

20 /100 +0 vs 30 days ago

Signal breakdown

  • Clinical trials 41 30d
  • Nova articles 0 30d
  • Patents filed 0 30d
  • FDA actions 0 30d
  • SEC filings 0 30d
  • Conference presentations 0 90d
  • Pipeline advances 0 30d

Competitor landscape

Therapeutic-area overlap peers from registry and pipeline signals.

Recent activity

Latest pipeline, patent, and corporate events for IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS.

  1. Clinical update

    LIN-MD-66 — Phase 3

  2. Clinical update

    Placebo for Linaclotide — Phase 3

  3. Clinical update

    Linaclotide or Matching Placebo — Phase 3

  4. Clinical update

    Linaclotide Dose A — Phase 2

  5. Clinical update

    Linaclotide Acetate — Phase 2

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Quick answers

Common questions about this sponsor — for analysts and search.

  • What is IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS?

    IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS is a pharma organization headquartered in Boston, USA. It trades on NYSE under ticker IRWD. Primary therapeutic focus areas include Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Constipation, Chronic Constipation, Constipation, Irritable Bowel Syndrome Characterized by C

  • Is IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS publicly traded?

    Yes. IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS is listed with ticker IRWD on NYSE per SEC EDGAR records linked on this profile.

  • What drugs does IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS develop or market?

    We link 11 drug profile(s) where IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS is an originator or marketer in FDA or regional approval metadata. See the drug portfolio table on https://novapharmanews.com/companies/ironwood-pharmaceuticals-inc#company-drugs.

  • What are the latest developments for IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS?

    In the last 12 months our linked public records show 33 trial program update(s) and 0 US patent grant(s) tied to this profile.

  • What therapeutic areas does IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS focus on?

    IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS focuses on Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Constipation, Chronic Constipation, Constipation based on our analysis of their pipeline programs and drug development activities.

Therapeutic focus

Therapeutic area distribution

Pipeline concentration by therapeutic area from linked clinical programs.

Programs by therapeutic area

Others
47
Cardiology
1