5 Penny Stocks to Buy Now October 16, 2025

Theriva Biologics Inc is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing a novel oncolytic adenovirus (OV) platform to address devastating cancers with high unmet needs. It is a clinical-stage program VCN-01, designed to break down the tumor stroma, and its preclinical-stage program VCN-11 leverages its proprietary Albumin Shield Technology to protect systemically administered oncolytic viruses from the host immune system.

Genprex Inc is a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing therapies for patients with cancer and diabetes. Its technologies are designed to administer disease-fighting genes to provide new therapies for large patient populations with cancer and diabetes who currently have limited treatment options. Genprex's oncology program utilizes its systemic, non-viral Oncoprex Delivery System which encapsulates the gene-expressing plasmids using lipid-based nanoparticles in a lipoplex form. The company's product candidate, Reqorsa Immunogene Therapy (quaratusugene ozeplasmid), is being evaluated in three clinical trials as...

Tenon Medical Inc is a medical device company that has developed a novel, minimally invasive approach to the sacroiliac joint (the SI Joint) using a single, robust, titanium implant for the treatment of the common types of SI Joint disorders that cause lower back pain. The Company is focused on three commercial opportunities; Primary SI Joint procedures, Revision procedures of failed SI Joint implants, and SI Joint fusion adjunct to a spine fusion construct. The company derives the majority of its revenue from sales of The Catamaran System to a limited number of clinicians.

Apollomics Inc is an clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of oncology therapies with the potential to be combined with other treatment options to harness the immune system and target specific molecular pathways to inhibit cancer. The company programs include vebreltinib (APL-101), a potent, selective c-Met inhibitor for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer and other tumors with c-Met alterations, and uproleselan (APL-106), a specific E-Selectin antagonist that has the potential to be used adjunctively with standard chemotherapy to treat acute myeloid leukemia.