Article: Metastatix Targeting CXCR4 Receptors In Cancer, HIV.

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With the recent completion of a $3.6 million Series A round, start-up firm Metastatix Inc. is ready to move toward the clinic with its first program, a chemokine inhibitor designed to prevent tumor growth and cancer metastasis by blocking the CXCR4 receptor.

The financing, led by Atlanta-based H.I.G. Ventures, is expected to "take us up to filing an investigational new drug application," said Metastatix President and CEO Tony Shuker, who, along with Dennis Liotta, Mike Natchus, Jim Snyder and Hyansuk Shim, founded the company last year as a spin-out of Emory University in Atlanta.

Emory licensed to Metastatix the initial technology ...

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