Curis, Inc. Publishes CUDC-101 Medicinal Chemistry Data

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Curis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a drug development company seeking to develop next generation targeted small molecule drug candidates for cancer treatment, today announced that a medicinal chemistry paper related to the discovery of CUDC-101, Curis’s HDAC, EGFR and Her2 inhibitor, was published online in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and also will be published in an upcoming print version of the journal. The paper describes the structure-based rational drug design, synthesis and structure-activity relationship (SAR) of a class of novel compounds that included CUDC-101 and the identification of CUDC-101 as a clinical candidate. Related in vitro and in vivo data associated with these compounds are also included.