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Rexahn Adds Drug Conjugate Platform To Its Oncology Offerings

 
• By Lisa LaMotta

The Rockville, Md.-based biotech hopes to bring more value to shareholders through a slew of polymer-conjugated cancer drugs that it will add to its pipeline while it continues moving its three lead cancer compounds forward.

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Inc. is hoping to de-risk its oncology pipeline by adding a new technology platform to the mix that builds on currently marketed chemotherapies. The Maryland biotech has licensed the technology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

The Nano-Polymer-Drug Conjugate Systems (NPDCS) platform coats a currently marketed chemotherapy agent in a polymer carrier with a signaling moiety...

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