NetworkNewsBreaks – Moleculin Biotech, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBRX) Reports Discovery of Metabolic Inhibitor with Potential to Treat Pancreatic Cancer; Shares Rise
Shares of Moleculin Biotech (NASDAQ: MBRX) are up more than 30% after the company said that WP1234, a metabolic inhibitor, is a positive drug candidate to be studied for the potential to treat pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is still considered mostly untreatable, so any improvement in treating this disease could symbolize a significant clinical benefit. "We have identified possible new properties of our compound WP1234, a modification to WP1122. In pre-clinical testing, WP1234 has shown improved drug characteristics when compared with WP1122 and a 20 to 50-fold greater ability to kill pancreatic cancer cell lines when compared with traditional inhibitors…







