Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. Appoints Anas Younes to Scientific Advisory Board
May 10, 2018 at 08:00 am EDT
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Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. announced the appointment of Anas Younes, M.D., to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Dr. Younes is a Professor and Chief of Lymphoma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Prior to joining MSK, he spent more than 20 years at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, most recently as Director of Clinical and Translational Medicine in the Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The Company is engaged in developing DNAbilize, a novel technology that has yielded a pipeline of RNAi nanoparticle drugs that can be administered with a simple intravenous transfusion. DNAbilize, is a platform that uses P-ethoxy, which is a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) backbone modification that is intended to protect the DNA from destruction by the bodyâs enzymes when circulating in vivo, incorporated inside of a lipid bilayer having neutral charge. Its lead product candidate, prexigebersen (BP1001, targeting the Grb2 protein), is in a Phase II study for blood cancers, and BP1001-A, a drug product modification of prexigebersen, is in a Phase I/Ib study for solid tumors. The Companyâs second product, BP1002, which targets the Bcl-2 protein, is being evaluated for the treatment of blood cancers and solid tumors, including lymphoma and acute myeloid leukemia. BP1003 is its third liposome delivered antisense drug candidate.
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