Summit Therapeutics plc, formerly Summit Corporation plc, is a United Kingdom-based biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of medicines for indications for which there are no existing or only inadequate therapies. The Company is conducting clinical programs focused on the genetic disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and the infectious disease Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). The Company’s lead DMD product candidate is SMT C1100, an orally administered small molecule. The Company’s lead CDI product candidate is SMT19969, an orally administered small molecule antibiotic. The Company subsidiaries include Summit Therapeutics, Inc., Summit (Oxford) Limited, Summit (Wales) Limited and MuOx Limited, among others.
