These days, most start-up companies intent on developing a novel treatment for nearly any disease make a point of talking about their drug candidate’s presumed mechanism of action. It is pretty much de rigueur that a would-be drugmaker will discuss molecular something: if not the candidate itself, then certainly its target. But Cellceutix Corp. is not a typical start-up. Founded in June 2007, it became a publicly traded company through a reverse merger in December of that year. While the company appreciates the buzz that its anti-cancer candidate is generating, it is being a bit more tight-lipped about Prurisol, its novel drug candidate for psoriasis.
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