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acgood

12/07/09 9:38 PM

#87085 RE: biomaven0 #87084

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DewDiligence

12/07/09 11:34 PM

#87093 RE: biomaven0 #87084

Quiz answer: A few companies are developing carbohydrate-based drugs for cancer, evidently. Nice catch on Progen, which has three such programs according to the company’s website:

http://www.progen.com.au/pipeline/angiogenesis.aspx

I don’t count MRK/GlycoFi as a quiz answer because I haven’t heard anything about a carbohydrate-based cancer drug in MRK’s pipeline. It’s been 3.5 years since the GlycoFi acquisition (#msg-11018747), presumably enough time for such a drug candidate to have surfaced if there were one.

The company I had in mind when posing the quiz question is GlycoMimetics, which was in the news today:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/GlycoMimetics-Announces-Two-bw-3826323246.html?x=0&.v=1

Regards, Dew