Cantex Pharmaceuticals announced that it obtained an exclusive worldwide license from Georgetown University for intellectual property related to the potential use of azeliragon to treat, prevent or alleviate cancer-treatment related cognitive decline....
Cantex Pharmaceuticals announced today that the USPTO has issued U.S. Patent No. 11,648,235, titled “Treatment of Glioblastoma,” with claims to a method of treating glioblastoma with azeliragon. This patent will expire in 2042....
Cantex’s azeliragon is an orally administered inhibitor of the receptor for advanced glycation end products (known as RAGE). Excessive activation of RAGE has been strongly implicated in life-threatening complications of COVID-19 infection, including lung and kidney failure. A protein produced by the immune system, known as “suPAR”, at high levels...
Cantex Pharmaceuticals and Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health Cancer Care, the largest cancer program in South Florida, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a “Study May Proceed” letter for the Miami Cancer Institute’s investigator initiated clinical trial to assess the...
Cantex Pharmaceuticals announced the FDA issued a “Study May Proceed” letter for the Phase 2 clinical trial to assess the safety and therapeutic effect of azeliragon in patients with newly diagnosed unmethylated glioblastoma treated with standard of care radiation therapy....
Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to Cantex' azeliragon, a well-tolerated once-a-day pill, for the treatment of glioblastoma....
WESTON, FL – September 14, 2021 – Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Cantex”) today announced that it has sold 6.5 million shares of Chimerix, Inc. in brokerage transactions at a price of $5.75 per share, less brokerage commissions and fees. About Cantex Pharmaceuticals Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a privately-held, clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on the transformation...
HIGH POINT, N.C. and WESTON, FL– June 22, 2021 – vTv Therapeutics Inc. ("vTv", Nasdaq:VTVT) and Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Cantex") today announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement under which Cantex has obtained exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialize azeliragon, vTv's novel antagonist of RAGE (the receptor...
Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Chimerix, Inc. (NASDAQ:CMRX), worldwide licensee of Cantex’s DSTAT investigational product, yesterday reported promising results of the first cohort of patients hospitalized with COVID-19-associated Acute Lung Injury (ALI)...
Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Chimerix, Inc., to whom it licensed worldwide rights for the development and commercialization of its lead product, CX-01 (now known as DSTAT) has initiated a Phase 2/3 study of DSTAT in COVID-19 patients with acute lung injury (ALI)...