The day of dosing cancer patients with Kevetrin is drawing near according to news this morning from Cellceutix Corporation (OTCBB: CTIX). The Beverly, Massachusetts-based company said today that clinical trials for their novel anti-cancer drug have gone active at Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Center and partner Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dosing should begin within in about two weeks, marking a major milestone for the biotechnology firm, judging from prior news.
Kevetrin, the company’s flagship compound, has been shown to restore the critical tumor-suppression protein p53, also called the “Guardian Angel of the Human Genome,” to its normal role as master cell regulator. In nearly all forms of cancer, p53 is muted in function in some form which represents significant market penetration potential for a new cancer therapeutic that could prove a benefit to the tens of millions of people afflicted by cancer globally.
Additional clinical trials are also slated to be performed, and sponsored by, Beth Israel Deaconess in combination with Pfizer multikinase inhibitor drugs as potential new therapies for renal cancer and melanoma. Further research is on tap for 2013 at a leading European university in combination with another global drug maker, although names have not been disclosed due to confidentiality agreements.
Shares of CTIX closed ahead 7.78 percent on the day at 97 cents.
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