Bio-Path Holdings Appoints Dr. Craig Hooper to Scientific Advisory Board
February 21, 2017 at 06:30 pm IST
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Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. announced the appointment of D. Craig Hooper, Ph.D., to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). D. Craig Hooper, Ph.D., is a Professor of Cancer Biology and Neurological Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Hooper has published over 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Immunology Research, Scientific Reports and the Journal of Immunology. In 2016 he was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The Company is engaged in developing DNAbilize, a novel technology that has yielded a pipeline of RNAi nanoparticle drugs that can be administered with a simple intravenous transfusion. DNAbilize, is a platform that uses P-ethoxy, which is a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) backbone modification that is intended to protect the DNA from destruction by the bodyâs enzymes when circulating in vivo, incorporated inside of a lipid bilayer having neutral charge. Its lead product candidate, prexigebersen (BP1001, targeting the Grb2 protein), is in a Phase II study for blood cancers, and BP1001-A, a drug product modification of prexigebersen, is in a Phase I/Ib study for solid tumors. The Companyâs second product, BP1002, which targets the Bcl-2 protein, is being evaluated for the treatment of blood cancers and solid tumors, including lymphoma and acute myeloid leukemia. BP1003 is its third liposome delivered antisense drug candidate.
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