SALT LAKE CITY, April 5, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Myrexis, Inc. (Nasdaq:MYRX), a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing novel treatments for cancer, today announced it presented five posters on its novel cancer metabolism inhibitor, MPC-9528, at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Orlando, Florida. MPC-9528, which is currently in preclinical studies, is an orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitor of an enzyme called Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltranferase (Nampt), which results in tumor cell death following depletion of a critical metabolic cofactor, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD).
