Description of Business

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2024

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Description of Business

1. Description of Business

Nature of Business

Pyxis Oncology, Inc. (the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, was founded in June 2018 and launched its operations in July 2019. The Company is a clinical stage company focused on defeating difficult-to-treat cancers. The Company is efficiently building next generation therapeutics that hold the potential for mono and combination therapies. The Company’s therapeutic candidates are designed to kill tumor cells and to address the underlying pathologies created by cancer that enable its uncontrollable proliferation and immune evasion. The Company’s antibody-drug conjugates (“ADCs”) and immuno-oncology (“IO”) programs employ novel and emerging strategies to target a broad range of solid tumors resistant to current standards of care.

On August 23, 2023, the Company completed the acquisition of Apexigen, Inc. (“Apexigen”) pursuant to a business combination agreement, whereby Ascent Merger Sub Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company merged with and into Apexigen, with Apexigen surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”).

The Company has one operating segment. The Company’s chief operating decision maker, its Chief Executive Officer, manages the Company’s operations on a consolidated basis for the purposes of assessing performance and allocating resources.