Somanta Announces the Presentation of Alchemix Data at The American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting
The poster presentation is entitled "Cytotoxicity of novel alkylating anthraquinones in cells with DNA Nucleotide Excision Repair and DNA Mismatch Repair defects," and focuses on structure-activity studies on the company's novel technology for targeting and irreversibly binding to DNA / DNA processing enzymes. The studies reported in the poster were conducted at the Institute for Cancer Therapeutics at the University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom (www.cancer.Brad.ac.uk) under the collaborative research agreement announced previously.
Somanata recently announced the company had signed a letter of intent to be acquired by Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc, (OTCBB:ACCP) an emerging oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company based in Dallas, Texas.
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Somanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Somanta") is a specialty oncology company with particular focus on in-licensing anti-cancer agents with substantial clinical data supporting safety and efficacy. To date, the Company has successfully in-licensed the rights to four products, each with a different mode of action and targeting eleven different cancer types.
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Posted: April 2007
