Placon Therapeutics spun out as independent company

29 March 2016
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US biotech firm Placon Therapeutics has been launched as an independent company. Placon was spun out from Blend Therapeutics (now Tarveda Therapeutics) to distinctly focus on a pipeline of innovative platinum-based assets.

FDA accepts BTP-114 IND

In its first announcement, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Placon provided an update on its lead product candidate, BTP-114, for which the US Food and Drug Administration has accepted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to begin clinical evaluation in cancer patient.

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