ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: RNN), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies to improve patient outcomes in cancers that are difficult to treat, today announced that it will present updated preliminary safety and efficacy data from the ongoing Phase 2a clinical trial of RX-3117 in combination with ABRAXANE® in first-line metastatic pancreatic cancer patients at the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers Symposium being held January 17-19, 2019 at the Moscone West Building in San Francisco, CA.
The poster will be presented on Friday, January 18, 2019 at 11:30 AM-1:00 PM and 5:30 PM-6:30 PM PST. A copy of the poster being presented will be available on the Company’s website at https://www.rexahn.com/news-media/posters beginning at 10:00 AM EST on Friday, January 18, 2019.
Details of the poster presentation are as follows:
Title: A phase 1/2 study of RX-3117, an oral antimetabolite nucleoside, in combination with nab-paclitaxel (nab-pac) as first line treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer (met-PC): Preliminary results.
Abstract Number: 420
Poster Board: M20
Session Information: Poster Session B: Cancers of the Pancreas, Small Bowel, and Hepatobiliary Tract
About Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE American: RNN) is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies to improve patient outcomes in cancers that are difficult to treat. The Company’s mission is to improve the lives of cancer patients by developing next-generation cancer therapies that are designed to maximize efficacy while minimizing the toxicity and side effects traditionally associated with cancer treatment. Rexahn’s product candidates work by targeting and neutralizing specific proteins believed to be involved in the complex biological cascade that leads to cancer cell growth. Preclinical studies show that several of Rexahn’s product candidates may be effective against multiple types of cancer, including drug resistant cancers, and difficult-to-treat cancers and others may augment the effectiveness of current FDA-approved cancer treatments. The Company has two oncology product candidates, RX-3117 and RX-5902, in Phase 2 clinical development and additional compounds in preclinical development, including RX-0301. For more information about the Company and its oncology programs, please visit www.rexahn.com.
Safe Harbor
To the extent any statements made in this press release deal with information that is not historical, these are forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about Rexahn’s plans, objectives, expectations and intentions with respect to the ongoing Phase 2a clinical trial of RX-3117 in combination with Abraxane®, future operations and products, the path of clinical trials and development activities, and other statements identified by words such as “will,” “potential,” “could,” “can,” “believe,” “intends,” “continue,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “may,” other words of similar meaning or the use of future dates. Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. Uncertainties and risks may cause Rexahn’s actual results to be materially different than those expressed in or implied by Rexahn’s forward-looking statements. For Rexahn, particular uncertainties and risks include, among others, understandings and beliefs regarding the role of certain biological mechanisms and processes in cancer; drug candidates being in early stages of development, including clinical development; the ability to initially develop drug candidates for orphan indications to reduce the time-to-market and take advantage of certain incentives provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; the ability to transition from our initial focus on developing drug candidates for orphan indications to candidates for more highly prevalent indications; and the expecting timing of results from our clinical trials. More detailed information on these and additional factors that could affect Rexahn’s actual results are described in Rexahn’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements in this news release speak only as of the date of this news release. Rexahn undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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