Article: Mercury Therapeutics Licenses Critical Oncology Target to Discover Lead Compounds.

WOBURN, Mass. -- Mercury Therapeutics, Inc. (MTI), a privately-held biopharmaceutical company, announced that it has recently acquired the exclusive, world-wide rights to a critical drug target in oncology from Massachusetts General Hospital. The technology will be used by the Company to develop small molecule inhibitors to the Ras-Raf protein interaction, a well validated but completely unexploited oncology drug target. "We are very pleased to have Mercury Therapeutics license the Ras-Raf technology. They have an excellent group of scientists coupled with a robust high throughput screening capability that will enable them to rapidly identify and develop inhibitors of ...

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