CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIND Biosciences, Inc. (BIND), a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutic targeted nanoparticles, announced today that it has been awarded a six month $150,000 Phase I SBIR contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop a targeted therapy for hormone refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). Prostate cancer accounts for an estimated 27,000 annual deaths in the U.S. and is an area of enormous unmet medical need.
