PLANEGG-MARTINSRIED, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--4SC AG (FWB:VSC), a discovery and development company of targeted small molecule drugs for autoimmune diseases and cancer, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to 4SC's lead oncology compound resminostat for the treatment of hepatocellular cancer (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer. Resminostat is in Phase II clinical development in advanced HCC, with results expected towards the end of 2011.
