# Acrivon Therapeutics

Acrivon Therapeutics is an Asset Manager based in Watertown, United States.

## Overview

- **Organization type:** Asset Manager
- **Headquarters:** Watertown, United States
- **Region:** North America
- **Address:** Watertown, MA, United States
- **Founded:** 2018
- **Assets under management:** Undisclosed
- **Website:** acrivon.com
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/acrivon

## Regulatory record

- **Reports private funds:** No

## About

Acrivon Therapeutics is a company developing targeted therapies in oncology. It uses a proteomics-based platform for patient selection in oncology drug development. Acrivon's pipeline includes clinical-stage assets targeting DNA Damage Response and selective kinase inhibitors.

## Sectors

- Oncology
- Precision Medicine

## People

- Peter Blume-Jensen — President & Chief Executive Officer
- Erika G. P. Heiges — Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer

## Questions

### How does Acrivon's AP3 platform differ from standard genomic precision medicine?

Acrivon's Predictive Precision Proteomics (AP3) platform directly measures drug-induced protein phosphorylation signaling in live tumor tissue, rather than inferring drug sensitivity from DNA mutations alone. The technology captures real-time functional responses of cancer pathways — a method Blume-Jensen and collaborators pioneered at Merck and Massachusetts General Hospital — and uses a machine-learning algorithm to predict patient response. This allows the firm to select patients for clinical trials based on a functional, dynamic biomarker rather than a static genetic one (per the firm's SEC filings).

### What is the clinical status of Acrivon's lead drug candidate?

ACR-368, a CHK1/2 inhibitor, is in a registrational Phase 2b clinical trial for patients with platinum-resistant ovarian and endometrial cancer, with enrollment ongoing as of 2024. The trial is designed to support accelerated approval, and the company has guided for a partial clinical data readout in the second half of 2025. This single study is intended to serve as the basis for a New Drug Application filing, provided it meets its primary endpoint of objective response rate in the selected population (per clinicaltrials.gov).

### Does Acrivon have any revenue from approved products?

No. Acrivon is a clinical-stage biotechnology company and does not generate revenue from commercial product sales. Its funding has come from venture capital — notably RA Capital and Perceptive Advisors — and a $120 million initial public offering in 2022. The firm's operational runway is dependent on equity capital markets and potential future partnership milestones, not recurring cash flow.

### What is the relationship between Acrivon's Watertown headquarters and its operations in Sweden?

Acrivon was co-founded with roots at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, where some foundational work on the AP3 phosphoproteomics platform was developed. The company maintains a research laboratory and subsidiary in Sweden, which handles the high-throughput proteomics processing of patient tumor samples collected from its clinical trials. The US headquarters in Watertown houses executive leadership, clinical operations, and the translational science team.

### How large is Acrivon's drug pipeline beyond ACR-368?

Acrivon's disclosed pipeline includes only two wholly owned programs: ACR-368, its CHK1/2 inhibitor, and ACR-2316, a WEE1 kinase inhibitor that entered clinical development in 2023 with a Phase 1 trial. The WEE1 program is designed to overcome the severe bone-marrow toxicity that has limited a competing drug from AstraZeneca, giving Acrivon a potential best-in-class window. The company's strategy is to build a pipeline of DNA damage repair inhibitors, with earlier-stage, undisclosed programs underpinned by the AP3 platform.

### Who are Acrivon's key scientific founders?

The firm was founded by CEO Peter Blume-Jensen, who previously led oncology therapy-area research at Merck and held academic posts at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Co-founders include Professor Thomas Helleday of the Karolinska Institute, a DNA repair biology expert, and Professor Michael Yaffe of MIT and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a phosphoproteomics and systems biology specialist. This trio's combined expertise forms the company's foundational intellectual property.

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