CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIA) today announced that new preclinical data on deforolimus, its investigational mTOR inhibitor, AP24534, its investigational multi-targeted kinase inhibitor, and its investigational anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor, will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, being held April 18 to 22, 2009.