Rheumatoid Arthritis

Pharma company announces publication of preclinical data in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 17th, 2004

Praecis Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: PRCS) announced the publication of preclinical research results relating to the utility of its investigational compound, PPI-2458, as a potential treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

The manuscript, titled "A methionine aminopeptidase-2 inhibitor, PPI-2458 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis," appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

PPI-2458 is a novel, proprietary molecule that acts by irreversibly inhibiting the enzyme methionine aminopeptidase type 2, or MetAP2. PPI-2458 is based on the fumagillin class of compounds. This class of compounds has been shown to prevent...

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