CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVEO), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing cancer therapeutics, today announced preclinical data from AVEO’s anti-RON antibody program which demonstrated the successful identification of antibodies with potent anti-tumor activity that demonstrated inhibition of the function of both wild type RON and the RON?160 variant, as well as a potential biomarker to identify tumors likely to respond to treatment with the anti-RON antibody. These data were presented yesterday in a late-breaker plenary presentation during the 22nd Annual Symposium of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer-National Cancer Institute-American Association for Cancer Research (EORTC-NCI-AACR) in Berlin, Germany. The lead antibodies from this program have been humanized for planned therapeutic development.
